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REPRODUCTION  OF  THE  ORIGINAL  LIST  No.  20,  DATTLIKON,  MARCH  27,   1744 


Lists  of  Swiss  Emigrants  in  the 

Eighteenth  Century  to  the 

American  Colonies 


VOLUME  I 


ZURICH,    1734-1744 

FROM   THE   ARCHIVES   OF   SWITZERLAND 


BY 

ALBERT  BERNHARDT  FAUST,  A.B.,  PH.D. 


PUBLISHED   BY 
THE   NATIONAL  GENEALOGICAL  SOCIETY 

GAIUS    M.    BRUMBAUGH.  Managing  Editor 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 

1920 


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ZURICH  TO  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA,  1734-1744 


PR  EFACE 

THE  manuscript  here  presented  is  contained  in  the  State  Archive 
of  Zurich,  and  was  discovered  during  a  search  it  was  my  privilege 
to  make  after  materials  for  American  history  in  the  archives  of 
Switzerland.1  The  manuscript  is  in  many  respects  the  most 
valuable  single  document  relating  to  America  contained  in  the 
Swiss  archives,  being  quite  as  important  for  its  historical  as  for 
its  genealogical  and  statistical  materials.  The  whole  history  of 
Swiss  emigration  in  the  eighteenth  century  is  epitomized  in  this 
valuable  document.2  The  statistician  finds  in  it  the  only  reliable 
enumeration  of  Swiss  emigrants  of  the  early  period,  and  is  able  to 
base  far-reaching  estimates  thereupon.  The  genealogist  is  furnished 
with  a  large  mass  of  family  records,  including  about  two  thousand 
names  with  accurate  data  as  to  origin,  distribution  and  destination. 

This  large  body  of  names  supplements  the  lists  of  I.  D.  Rupp, 
in  his  collection  of  Thirty  Thousand  Names,  of  German,  Swiss, 
Dutch,  French,  and  other  Immigrants  in  Pennsylvania,  from  1737— 
1776,  compiled  mainly  from  the  ship  lists  in  Philadelphia.  Many 
of  the  names  in  the  manuscript  will  be  found  also  in  Rupp's  col 
lection,  and  it  is  a  pleasure  to  know  that  so  many  persons  reached 
their  destination.  But  a  still  larger  number  are  not  contained  in 
Rupp's  lists,  partly  because  the  Philadelphia  ship-lists  do  not  give  a 
complete  record  of  all  arrivals  even  in  that  port,  and  partly  because 
a  great  many  of  those  named  in  the  manuscript  were  shipped  to 
Carolina.  Many  of  those  who  landed  in  Carolina,  however,  sub- 

1  See  Guide  to  the  Materials  for  American  History  in  the  Swiss  and  Austrian 
Archives,  by  Albert  B.  Faust,  Washington,  D.  C.,  1916.     The  search  was  made 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington,  Department  of. 
Historical  Research,  in  the  year  1913. 

2  A  fuller  understanding  of  this  important  epoch  in  American  history  may  be 
secured  through  the  reprinted  Swiss  Emigration  to  the  American  Colonies  in  the 
Eighteenth  Century,  herein  reproduced  (see  below,  pp.  1-25)  through  the  courtesy 
of  Dr.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Managing  Editor  of  The  American  Historical  Review. 


IV  PREFACE. 

sequently  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  An  interesting  example  of  this 
is  the  case  of  the  family  Kolliker  (Kelker),  who  very  soon  settled 
four  miles  from  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania.  Our  manuscript  tells  us 
that  Heinrich  Kolliker,  with  three  sons  and  two  daughters  left 
Herrliberg  in  1743,  destined  for  Carolina.  This  corresponds  to 
the  family  tradition  which  Rupp  received  from  the  great-grandson 
Rudolph  F.  Kelker,  whose  ancestor's  name  is  not  in  the  Philadelphia 
ship-lists.3  Our  manuscript  moreover  supplies  not  only  the  names 
of  the  parents,  but  also  of  all  the  children  and  their  ages. 

In  order  to  understand  the  manuscript  before  us,  it  is  necessary 
to  bring  before  our  minds  the  attitude  of  the  European  governments 
toward  emigration  in  the  eighteenth  century.  The  liberality  of 
view  that  developed  in  the  nineteenth  century,  i.e.,  of  toleration  if 
not  encouragement,  and  a  disposition  to  aid  the  emigrant  to  a 
betterment  of  his  condition,  by  means  of  transportation  facilities 
and  an  intelligent  view  of  what  was  before  him,  this  humanitarian 
policy  is  modern.  The  old  tradition  was,  that,  emigration  was  a 
crime,  and  punishable  as  such,  equivalent  to  desertion,  a  deliberate 
shirking  of  one's  obvious  duty  to  the  fatherland. 

There  were  economic  reasons  for  this  policy.  The  loss  of  sturdy 
people  such  as  belonged  to  the  emigrating  class,  meant  so  many 
hands  less  for  the  farms  and  trades,  so  many  soldiers  less  for  the 
protection  of  the  country  in  a  possible  struggle  for  existence.  The 
danger  of  over-population  was  not  present  in  the  eighteenth  century, 
that  became  the  problem  of  a  later  age.  The  enormous  increase 
in  population  in  Europe  during  the  nineteenth  century  is  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  facts  in  history,  and  brought  to  the  foreground 
entirely  new  economic  questions.  Certainly  the  point  of  view  on 
the  question  of  emigration  changed  entirely.  But  in  the  manu 
script  before  us  we  are  dealing  with  an  earlier  age,  when  each 
government,  especially  in  Central  Europe,  with  the  instinct  of  self- 

3  See  Manuscript  (MS),  No.  42,  and  I.  D.  Rupp,  Thirty  Thousand  Names, 
New  edition,  1898,  p.  167,  note.  Rupp  reports  a  family  tradition  that  Heinrich 
Kolliker  and  his  family  were  twenty-eight  weeks  crossing  the  ocean,  that  two 
sons  and  one  daughter  died  on  the  way,  that  they  landed  in  Carolina,  but  that 
Heinrich  Kolliker  was  an  elder  of  "Berg  Kirch"  near  Lebanon  as  early  as  1745. 
The  certificate  of  character  given  the  departing  Kollikers  and  preserved  by  the 
descendants,  is  signed  by  the  same  pastor  Conrad  Ziegler  who  also  sent  in  the 
report  to  the  Zurich  government  in  1744.  The  mother's  name,  according  to  our 
MS  was  "Ragula"  Bratscher,  but  "Barbara"  Bratscheri,  according  to  Rupp's 
reading  of  the  family  certificate.  It  is  probable  that  Rupp  mistook  the  more 
frequent  name  Barbara  for  the  less  common  Regula  (probably  badly  written), 
and  did  not  notice  that  the  family  name  ended  in  "in"  (not  "i"),  a  (feminine), 
termination  frequently  added  to  the  names  of  women. 


'    PREFACE.  V 

preservation,  jealously  guarded  its  population  against  leaving  its 
borders.  An  egress  though  slight  might  bring  up  the  horror  of 
depopulation  and  resultant  annihilation.  Martin  Luther  read  into 
the  thirty-seventh  psalm  the  duty  to  remain  in  the  fatherland  and 
make  an  honest  living  therein.  The  seventeenth  and  eighteenth 
centuries  tried  to  prohibit  emigration  by  law. 

Thus  we  find  in  Switzerland  that  during  the  most  critical  emi 
gration  period,  between  1734  and  1750,  decrees  or  mandates  were 
issued  against  emigration  every  few  years,  in  1720,  1735,  1736, 
1738,  and  1749,  again  in  1753,  and  1754,  repeated  in  1771  and 
X773-  The  populous  Protestant  cantons  Bern,  Zurich  and  Basel 
were  most  affected,  and  of  these  Zurich  proceeded  most  ener 
getically  against  the  so-called  "emigration  fever."  She  published 
the  first  severe  edict,  November  3,  1734,  forbidding  emigration  to 
Carolina,  preventing  property  sales  by  those  wishing  to  leave,  and 
proclaiming  punishments  for  agents  and  distributors  of  literature. 
This  was  followed  shortly  after  by  the  mandate  of  January  29, 
1735,  which  added  sterner  measures,  deprivation  of  citizenship  and 
landrights  forever,  penalties  for  purchasers  of  emigrant  property 
and  severe  punishment  of  agitators.  Bern  and  Basel  did  not  act 
as  promptly,  the  former  retaining  for  a  time  the  policy  of  favoring 
the  emigration  of  the  homeless  and  sectarian  classes,  the  latter 
being  obliged  by  her  location  to  keep  the  gateway  open.  But  as 
soon  as  they  felt  the  dangerous  force,  they  attempted  by  the  same 
methods  as  Zurich  to  stem  the  rising  tide. 

Zurich  had  cause  to  be  terrified.  In  some  of  her  districts  the 
"fever"  of  emigration  produced  something  like  a  stampede,  e.g., 
in  the  district  of  Eglisau,  as  the  manuscript  shows.  It  is  hardly 
surprising  therefore  that,  to  get  at  the  facts,  the  authorities  of 
Zurich  attempted  to  get  a  census  of  the  emigrants.  That  is  what 
the  manuscript  before  us  actually  is.  The  central  authorities,  in 
the  year  1744,  sent  a  circular  letter  to  all  the  districts  of  Zurich, 
which  in  turn  sent  the  message  to  all  the  parishes,  demanding  to 
know  the  names,  with  dates  of  birth,  departure  etc.,  of  every  man, 
woman  and  child  who  had  left  the  country  between  1734  and  1744 
with  the  purpose  of  going  to  Pennsylvania  or  Carolina.  The 
persons  who  executed  the  order  were  the  local  preachers,  whose 
signatures  appear  in  the  manuscript  attesting  the  accuracy  of  their 
reports.  Each  report  is  numbered,  and  there  are  as  many  as  ninety- 
eight  numbers  or  reports  in  the  manuscript. 

The  reports  are  not  alike  either  in  form  or  content.  Each 
minister  chose  a  scheme  of  notation  as  he  pleased.  In  some  cases 


VI  PREFACE. 

the  date  of  birth,  in  others  of  baptism  is  recorded.  The  name  is 
usually  given  in  full,  often  the  father's  name  and  profession  is 
added,  sometimes  an  additional,  a  familiar  name  appears,  the  habit 
of  calling  and  even  recording  persons  by  their  nicknames  being 
still  prevalent  in  some  parts  of  Switzerland.  In  cases  of  bondsmen, 
the  name  of  the  estate,  or  of  journeymen,  helpmates  (Gesellen), 
the  master's  name  is  given  for  identification.  Very  commonly  the 
trade  of  the  men  is  stated,  carpenters,  joiners,  turners,  wheelwrights, 
wagon-builders,  blacksmiths,  locksmiths,  masons,  glaziers,  weavers, 
shoe-makers  and  tailors  abound,  also  very  special  trades  are  men 
tioned,  as  tilers,  menders,  rope-makers,  resin-scrapers,  hedge-,  and 
scabbard-makers.  The  reports  vary  in  matter  from  a  bare  statisti 
cal  catalogue  of  names,  to  a  gossiping  letter.  Most  of  the  reports 
contain  some  notes  or  data  which  add  to  the  human  interest  or  fill 
out  the  historical  background  of  the  manuscript. 

Most  of  the  reports  betray  great  anxiety  to  serve  the  cause  of 
obstructing  emigration,  and  in  some  cases  an  objectionable  display 
of  fawning  servility  appears  in  the  communications  to  superiors. 
Some  emphasize  the  speed  with  which  their  reply  to  the  circular  has 
been  returned,  the  record-time  being  less  than  twenty-four  hours; 
very  many  feel  the  necessity  of  apologizing  for  the  departure  of 
emigrants,  calling  attention  to  their  paternal  admonitions  and 
repeated  warnings  concerning  the  dangers  of  the  voyage  and  the 
false  reports  circulated  about  a  land  of  plenty  ("Schlaraffenland"), 
where  sluggards  have  but  to  open  their  mouths  for  roast  pigeons 
to  fly  in.  A  tendency  existed  to  damage  the  reputations  of  those 
that  departed,  at  least  to  represent  them  as  an  undesirable  class, 
who  had  better  be  got  rid  of.  On  close  inspection  of  the  manu 
script,  however,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  disorderly  persons  enum 
erated  generally  fainted  by  the  wayside  and  rarely  succeeded  in 
getting  across.  The  great  bulk  of  those  listed  went  with  permission 
(though  reluctantly  given),  which  implies  a  certificate  of  good 
character  from  the  pastor,  when  the  contrary  is  not  expressly  stated. 

Some  of  the  pastors  do  not  wish  to  curry  favor,  and  a  few  boldly 
speak  out,  as  the  venerable  pastor  of  Dattlikon,  who  says,  that 
while  the  spiritual  care  of  the  people  is  essential,  it  would  also  be 
wise  and  good,  to  provide  some  form  of  work  for  the  industrious 
unemployed,  and  then  they  would  not  be  forced  to  emigrate.4 
A  sombre  coloring  appears  in  the  report  from  Schlieren,  where  the 
emigrants  left  amid  pitiable  lamentations  of  several  mothers. 
Touching  in  the  report  of  the  pastor  of  Wyl  is  the  brief  reference 

4  See  report  No.  20. 


PREFACE.  Vll 

accompanying  Heinrich  Sigerist,  who  left  with  his  wife  and  "a 
daughter  ten  years  old,  who  can  read  and  pray  very  well  indeed."5 

The  manuscript  reveals  much  of  the  circumstances  under  which 
individuals  were  moved  to  emigrate.  A  very  large  number  of  the 
young  people  have  lost  their  fathers,  thereby  missing  either  the 
parental  protection  at  home,  or  the  authority  to  curb  their  youth 
ful  spirit  of  adventure  or  "Wanderlust."  Divorced  persons  and 
widowers  are  frequent,  and  widows  with  numerous  children,  who 
are  allowed  to  go  because  of  the  fear  that  they  might  fall  a  burden 
to  the  community.  Young  couples  leave  their  homes  because  of 
objections  to  their  marriage,  they  are  frequently  united  on  the  way 
or  on  ship-board.  But  economic  distress  exerts  the  strongest 
pressure.  From  Richtenschweil6  we  hear  of  a  group  of  emigrants 
who  frankly  declare,  that  they  had  to  work  day  and  night  at  home 
and  even  then  they  could  not  earn  their  daily  bread,  hence  they 
were  forced  to  leave.  The  hope  of  escaping  unbearable  conditions 
is  the  greatest  driving  power.  Some  left  secretly  to  avoid  the 
emigration  tax,  imposed  so  as  to  rescue  some  of  the  money  that  was 
leaving  the  country  through  the  large  emigration.  The  tax  became 
as  high  as  ten  percent,7  and  was  exacted  with  rigor. 

Favorable  letters  or  verbal  reports  from  returning  travelers 
gave  a  great  stimulus  to  emigration.  This  we  see  illustrated  again 
in  the  manuscript  before  us.  The  voyage  is  dangerous,  the  death- 
rate  high,  but  work  and  food  are  plentiful,  and  the  hard-working 
succeed,  that  is  the  old  story.  Occasionally  an  offer  of  help  is 
made,  as  when  a  successful  settler8  promises  to  pay  the  trans 
portation  from  London  to  America,  if  it  be  paid  back  in  work  on 
his  farm.  Those  had  the  best  chance  to  succeed  who  had  a  little 
money  of  their  own,  paupers  very  often  were  stranded  on  the 
way,  or  lay  hopelessly  at  the  ports. 

An  interesting  study  is  furnished  by  the  names.  We  have  here 
an  abundance  of  familiar  Swiss  and  Palatine  names  such  as  Frick, 
Huber,  Naff,  Kunz,  Kagi,  Bar,  Albracht,  Brunner,  Frey,  Fritschi, 
May,  Wirt,  Meyer  and  Miiller.  The  transformation  of  such  names 
into  American  spellings,  and  the  many  variant  forms  that  appear 
in  Pennsylvania  and  elsewhere,  have  been  admirably  treated  by 
Professor  Oscar  Kuhns  in  his  article  Studies  in  Pennsylvania  German 
Family  Names,9  which  will  be  reprinted  in  the  new  edition  of  his 
German  and  Swiss  Settlements  of  Colonial  Pennsylvania. 

1  Report  No.  97.  6  No.  68. 

7  See  reprint  from  American  Historical  Review,  below,  p.  1-25.  8  No.  80. 

9  The  studies  in  P.  G.  family  names  were  first  published  in  Americana  Ger- 
manica,  Vol.  4,  pp.  299-341.  The  new  edition  of  the  German  and  Swiss  Settle 
ments  etc.  will  be  published  by  the  Methodist  Book  Co. 


viii  PREFACE. 

It  is  noticeable  that  Carolina  is  mentioned  more  frequently  as 
the  destination  of  emigrants  than  Pennsylvania.  This  is  due  to  the 
fact  that  in  Switzerland  no  part  of  the  American  colonies  received 
more  advertising  than  the  Carolinas.  The  only  two  independent 
Swiss  colonies  in  America  were  located,  the  one  in  North  Carolina 
at  New  Bern  (1710)  by  Graff enried,10  the  other  in  South  Carolina 
at  Purrysburg  (1732)  by  J.  P.  Purry.11  Naturally  much  of  the 
emigrant  literature  had  the  Carolinas  for  its  subject,  and  the  old 
tradition  held  its  own  for  a  long  time.  The  Orangeburg-Lexington 
district  in  South  Carolina  also  received  a  quota  of  Swiss  settlers,12 
but  migrations  from  one  locality  to  another  were  very  frequent.13 
The  great  distributing  center,  however,  for  the  whole  colonial 
German  population,  was  Pennsylvania. 

It  must  be  remembered,  that  the  names  in  this  manuscript  do 
not  give  us  a  complete  catalogue  of  all  the  Swiss  who  came  to 
America  in  the  eighteenth  century,  but  merely  those  from  the 
populous  canton  of  Zurich  at  the  time  of  the  great  exodus,  1734- 
I744.14  The  names  are  representative  and  will  furnish  many  a 
family  who  have  a  tradition  of  Swiss  descent  with  a  clue  to  their 
Swiss  ancestry.  In  many  instances,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Kelker 
(Kollicker)  family,  the  manuscript  will  furnish  a  verification  or 
correction  of  family  tradition. 

The  German  original  of  this  manuscript  was  copied  under  the 
supervision  of  Professor  Hans  Nabholz,  state  archivist  of  Zurich, 
to  whom  grateful  acknowledgments  are  due.  The  translation  and 
editing  of  the  manuscript  in  the  form  in  which  it  here  appears  was 
done  at  Cornell  University,  under  the  direction  and  with  the 
assistance  of  the  undersigned. 

ALBERT  B.  FAUST. 
ITHACA,  N.  Y.,  July  30,  1919. 

10  Cf.  V.  H.  Todd,  "Christoph  von  Graffenried  and  the  Settlement  of  New 
Bern,  N.  C."     (Jahrbuch  d.  D.  A.  Hist.  Gesellschaft  v.  Illinois,  1912.)     Also: 
German  American  Annals,  n.  s.,  XI,  210-302;  and  XII,  63-190. 

11  Cf.  H.  A.  M.  Smith,  "Purrysburgh,"  South  Carolina  Hist.  Mag.,  X,  187-219. 

12  Cf.  A.  S.  Salley,  The  History  of  Orangeburg  County,  Orangeburg,  S.  C.,  1898. 

13  Cf.  A.  B.  Faust,  The  German  Element  in  the  United  States,  Boston,  1919, 
Volume  I,  Chapters  VIII  (Carolinas)  and  X  (Frontier).     For  bibliography  on 
emigrant  literature,  Guide,  supra,  pp.  29-31.     For  traits  of  early  German  and 
Swiss  settlers,  see  O.  Kuhns,  German  and  Swiss  Settlers  of  Colonial  Pennsylvania. 

14  Certain  other  rare  and  important  lists  of  Emigrants  to  the  American  Colo 
nies  from  Basel  and  Bern,  Switzerland,  of  about  the  same  period,  are  to  be  pub 
lished  in  a  subsequent  volume,  similar  in  character  to  this  volume.    Advance 
subscriptions  will  materially  assist  in  the  consummation  of  this  project. 

G.  M.  B. 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS 

Preface,  by  Albert  B.  Faust,  A.B.,  Ph.D iii 

Introduction:  Swiss  Emigration  to  the  American  Colonies  in 
the  Eighteenth  Century.  Reprinted  from  the  American 
Historical  Review,  by  Albert  B.  Faust,  A.B.,  Ph.D 1-25 

The    Manuscript:    Zurich    to    Carolina    and    Pennsylvania, 

1 734-1744 26-100 

Appendix:  Movements  of  Swiss  Emigrants  in  the  American 

Colonies,  by  Gaius  M.  Brumbaugh,  M.S.,  M.D 101-102 

Index 103 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

Facing  page 

1  List  No.  20,  Dattlikon,  March  27,  1744  (Facsimile). Title  Page 

2  List  No.  30,  Erlenbach,  May  i,  1744  (Facsimile) 49 

3  List  No.  72,  Schlieren,  April  3,  1744  (Facsimile) 78 

4  List  No.  72,  Page  2  (Facsimile) 78 

5  List  No.  72,  Page  3  (Facsimile) 78 

6  List  No.  72,  Page  4  (Facsimile) 78 

7  Reproduction  of  Transcript  of  List  No.  72 78 

8  Reproduction  of  Transcript  of  Lists  No.  73,  74 78 

9  List  No.  73,  "  Parish  Schafflistorf,  Since  1734  "(Facsimile) .  79 

10  List  No.  74,  Parish  Schwerzenbach  (Facsimile) 80 

11  List  No.  87,  Wadeschweil  (Facsimile) 92 

12  Ship  Captain's  List  of  Inhabitants  of  the  Canton  of  Bern, 

Imported  from  South  Carolina,  Philadelphia,  August 

26,  1735  (Facsimile) 101 

13  Page  2  of  the  Above,  Including  Men,  Women  and  Children 

(Facsimile) 102 

14  Oath  of  Allegiance  List  of  the  Above  (Facsimile) 102 


XI 


Swiss  Emigration  to  the  American  Colonies  in 
the  Eighteenth  Century* 

BY  ALBERT  BERNHARDT  FAUST,  A.B.,   PH.D. 

THE  many  thousands  of  Swiss  colonists  who  came  to  America  in 
the  eighteenth  century  directed  their  course  mainly  to  Pennsylvania 
and  Carolina,  which  they  commonly  believed  to  be  parts  of  the 
West  India  Islands.  Two  colonies  were  founded  under  Swiss  leader 
ship,  one  in  1710  at  New  Bern,  North  Carolina,  under  Christoph  von 
Graffenried,  the  other  in  1732  at  Purrysburgh,  South  Carolina,  pro 
moted  by  Jean  Pierre  Purry  of  Neuch^tel.  These  colonies  encoun 
tered  all  the  hardships  of  pioneer  settlements,  extremes  of  heat  and 
cold,  fevers  incident  to  the  breaking  of  new  ground,  hostility  of  the 
natives,  deficiencies  in  material  equipment.  Emigrants  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  before  their  arrival  in  the  land  of  hope,  had  to 
endure  the  perils  of  the  sea  for  months  with  slight  protection  and 
provision,  they  faced  at  best  a  decimation  of  their  numbers  on  the 
crowded  ships  that  conveyed  them  across,  they  were  too  often  the 
victims  of  fraudulent  captains  and  agents,  who  robbed  them  and 
sold  them  into  servitude.  All  these  trials  and  difficulties  were  borne 
and  overcome  by  the  early  Swiss  in  common  with  all  other  sturdy 
and  heroic  pioneers  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

But  there  is  something  distinctive  about  the  emigration  from 
Switzerland  and  that  greater  area  of  eighteenth-century  emigration, 
the  Palatinate  and  the  upper  Rhine  country,  the  story  of  which  has 
not  been  told.  This  is  a  record  of  hardship  and  obstruction  at 
home,  of  barriers  placed  in  the  way  of  the  emigrant  by  governments, 
of  social  ostracism,  and  of  deprivation  of  all  his  rights  and  privileges. 
The  home  governments  feared  the  loss  of  their  people  by  emigration 
as  much  as  they  might  by  war  or  pestilence,  and  employed  all  means 
in  their  power  to  prevent  it.  For  a  study  of  this  subject  the 
materials  found  in  the  Swiss  archives  seem  to  be  richer  than  those 
that  have  survived  in  the  archives  of  the  Palatinate  and  southern 
Germany,  where  in  the  eighteenth  century  the  same  policy  prevailed 
of  restricting,  and  if  possible  prohibiting,  emigration.  Conditions 

*  [Reprinted  from  THE  AMERICAN  HISTORICAL  REVIEW,  Vol.  XXII,  No.  i, 
pp.  21-41,  Oct.,  1916,  through  the  courtesy  of  Dr.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Manag 
ing  Editor.] 

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2  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

in  Switzerland,  therefore,  may  be  assumed  to  illustrate  also  the 
situation  for  the  German  emigrant  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

The  only  occasion  when  a  Swiss  government  of  the  eighteenth 
century  encouraged  emigration  was  at  the  very  beginning,  and  by 
the  Council  of  Bern.  This  happened  in  the  following  way:  in  the 
years  1701-1704  the  Bernese  traveller  Franz  Ludwig  Michel  made 
two  trips  to  the  American  colonies,  visiting  Pennsylvania  and 
Virginia  mainly,  with  the  object  incidentally  of  selecting  a  site  for  a 
colony.  His  manuscript  report1  on  his  journeys  concludes  with  a 
draft  of  a  petition  to  Queen  Anne,  proposing  a  Swiss  settlement  of 
from  four  to  five  hundred  persons  in  Pennsylvania  or  Virginia  under 
certain  liberal  conditions.  The  principal  promoters  of  this  plan 
were  Georg  Ritter  and  Rudolff  Ochs,2  who  succeeded  as  early  as 
1705  in  interesting  the  Council  of  Bern  and  the  English  envoy 
Aglionby  in  the  scheme.3 

It  is  of  importance  to  note  the  motives  that  impelled  the  govern 
ment  of  Bern  to  take  up  the  matter.  Emigration  of  the  virile  and 
well-to-do  elements  of  the  population  was  not  what  they  intended, 
but  they  saw  an  opportunity  of  ridding  themselves  of  what  seemed 
to  them  two  very  undesirable  classes  of  people.  One  of  these  was  a 
pauper  element,  the  homeless  Landsassen,  squatters  not  citizens. 
The  other  was  the  sectarian  class,  Baptists,  Anabaptists,  or  Menno- 
nites  (Wiedertaufer,  Taufer).  The  latter  particularly  were  con 
sidered  a  source  of  danger  to  both  Church  and  State:  their  refusal 
to  bear  arms  or  hold  office,  their  simplicity  of  worship  and  com 
munistic  tendencies,  seemed  to  undermine  the  foundations  of  civil 
governments,  of  the  Protestant  and  Catholic  churches  alike.  The 

1  This  interesting  manuscript  is  preserved  in  the  Stadtbibliothek  of   Bern. 
Much  of  the  German  text  of  the  manuscript  has  been  printed  in  an  article  by 
J.  H.  Graf,  entitled  "Franz  Ludwig  Michel  von  Bern  und  seine  ersten  Reisen 
nach  Amerika   1701-1704:    ein   Beitrag  zur  Vorgeschichte  der  Griindung  von 
New-Berne,"  in  the  Neues  Berner  Taschenbuch,  1898,  pp.  59-144.     A  translation 
into  English  of  the  complete  manuscript  has  appeared  in  the  Virginia  Magazine 
of  History,  beginning  in  January,  1916,  done  by  Professor  William  J.  Hinke.     The 
unique  illustrations  of  the  manuscript,  including  maps,  the  first  building  of  the 
College  of  William  and  Mary,  etc.,  are  there  reproduced  to  accompany  the  text; 
explanatory  notes  are  also  given. 

2  Joh.  Rudolff  Ochs  compiled  a  descriptive  work  on  Carolina,  entitled:   Amer- 
ikanischer   Wegweiser  oder  Kurtze  und  Eigentliche  Beschreibung  der  Englischen 
Provintzen  in  N or d- America,  Sonderlich  aber  der  Landschafft  Carolina,  mil  Gros- 
sem  Fleiss  zusammen  getragen  und  an  den  Tag  gegeben  durch  Joh.  Rudolff  Ochs 
neben  einer  neuen  u.  correcten  Land-Karten  von  Nord-  und  Sud-Carolina  (Bern, 
1711).     Fifty  thalers  were  voted  to  the  author  by  the  Council  of  Bern  for  this 
printed  work  dedicated  to  them;  see  Ratsmanuale  of  Bern,  March  21,  1711. 

3  Cf.  Faust,  Guide  to  the  Materials  for  American  History  in  Stuiss  and  Austrian 
Archives  (Washington,  1916),  p.  37. 


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most  terrible  and  relentless  persecution  by  courts  specially  appointed 
(Tdufer-Kammer)  and  spies  tracking  the  suspected  to  their  homes 
(Tdufer- Jdger},  executions  by  fire  and  water  (drowning,  with  in 
tended  irony),  compulsory  service  in  foreign  armies  or  on  the  galleys 
of  the  Mediterranean,  could  not  stop  the  spread  of  the  sectarian 
doctrines.  Deportation  to  the  American  colonies  seemed  to  offer  a 
hope  of  relief.  Accordingly,  the  Council  of  Bern  welcomed  the 
opportunity  offered  by  Ritter  and  Company,  though  they  presented 
a  double  face,  recommending  America  to  the  Mennonites  as  a  place 
where  they  could  obtain  an  abundance  of  food,  while  at  the  same 
time  warning  others  against  Pennsylvania,  a  desert,  in  which  food 
supplies  were  altogether  lacking,  and  from  which  the  government 
felt  duty-bound  to  hold  its  people  back  until  longer  experience 
had  been  gained.4 

The  expedition  of  Ritter  did  not  start  until  March,  1710.  We 
find  an  entry  in  the  Ratsmanuale  of  Bern,  that  forty-five  thalers  a 
head  were  to  be  paid  to  Ritter  for  every  Tdnfer  he  succeeded  in 
bringing  to  America,  and  five  hundred  thalers  more  for  another 
group  of  about  one  hundred  emigrants  (pauper  class),  who  desired 
to  go  to  America.5  The  deportation  of  Ritter's  group  of  Ana 
baptists  proved  a  failure,  though  every  possible  precaution  had  been 
taken  to  prevent  their  escape.  The  Dutch  Mennonites  objected 
strenuously  to  the  deportation  of  brothers  of  their  faith,  and  refused 
to  allow  any  to  be  carried  through  their  country  for  the  purpose  of 
transportation  to  America,  unless  it  were  of  their  own  free  will. 
Of  the  forty-three  men  and  eleven  women  composing  the  Tdufer 
group,  thirty-two  were  released  at  Mannheim  owing  to  age  and 
sickness,  the  remaining  twenty-two  gained  their  liberty  at  Nim- 
wegen.6 

Graffenried  and  Michel  became  members  of  the  Ritter  Company 
in  1710,  the  former's  connections  with  influential  men  in  England, 
and  the  latter's  experience,  being  of  value  in  rescuing  the  Bernese 
emigration  scheme  from  complete  failure.  A  total  purchase  of 
17,500  acres  was  made  and  probably  through  the  influence  of  the 
surveyor  Lawson  the  land  was  located  at  the  confluence  of  the 
Neuse  and  the  Trent  in  North  Carolina.  At  this  time  London  was 
crowded  with  more  than  ten  thousand  Palatine  emigrants  desirous 
of  being  transported  to  the  American  colonies,  and  the  problem  of 
their  sustenance  and  disposition  was  becoming  very  burdensome. 

4  Bern,  Mandatenbuch,  1709,  1710;   Bern,  Ratsmanuale  (RM.),  XL.  238,  392. 
6  Bern,  RM.,  XLI.  229,  281,  etc. 

6  Cf.  Ernst  Miiller,  Geschichte  der  Bernischen  Tdufer  (Frauenfeld,  1895),  pp. 
252,  278,  etc. 


4  LISTS  OF  SWISS  EMIGRANTS   IN  THE 

Graffenried  and  Michel  succeeded  in  getting  about  six  hundred  of 
them  for  their  Carolina  colony,  and  Graffenried  had  the  privilege  of 
choosing  what  seemed  to  him  the  most  desirable  persons.  These 
and  the  remnant  of  Bernese  emigrants  made  up  several  ship-loads 
of  colonists  for  Graffenried's  new  settlement.  The  fortunes  of  New 
Bern  in  its  beginnings  have  been  told  by  the  facile  pen  of  the  founder 
himself.7  He  built  better  than  he  knew,  under  a  luckier  star  than 
Peter  Eurry,  whose  town,  so  promising  before  the  Revolutionary 
War,  has  left  but  a  name  in  colonial  history. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  aiding  the  government  in  the  deporta 
tion  of  undesirables,  the  Ritter  agency  was  a  total  failure.  Such  a 
scheme  was  again  discussed  by  the  Berner  Rat  in  iyio,8  with  a 
proposition  to  buy  land  in  one  of  the  American  colonies  for  this 
purpose.  But  the  plan  was  dropped,  and  never  taken  up  again. 
There  was  a  return  to  the  original  position  on  the  subject  of  emi 
gration,  that  contained  in  the  prohibitory  decrees  of  the  seventeenth 
century,9  punishing  returning  emigrants  with  loss  of  property  and 
citizenship. 

The  old  tradition  forbade  emigration.  Leaving  the  country  of 
one's  birth  seemed  equivalent  to  desertion,  and  as  desertion  from 
the  ranks  was  paid  for  with  loss  of  life,  so  emigration  was  punishable 
with  loss  of  all  that  the  state  deemed  worth  having,  citizenship, 
property,  land-  and  home-rights.  Banishment,  social  ostracism, 
refusal  of  permission  to  return,  imprisonment  for  life  if  caught 
returning,  these  were  the  conditions  on  which  the  emigrant  gave  up 
his  country.  Characteristic  is  the  categorical  command  in  the 
Lutheran  translation  of  Psalm  xxxvii.  3:  "Bleibe  im  Lande  und 
nahre  dich  redlich,"  which  in  the  English  version  is  an  indefinite 

7  The  three  manuscripts  of  Graffenried  on  the  settlement  of  New  Bern  are 
described,  and  two  of  them  printed,  in  German  American  Annals,  n.  s.,  XI.  205- 
302,  and  XII.  63-190.     See  also  Guide,  pp.  73-75.     W.  F.  von  Miilinen,  librarian 
of  the  city  of  Bern,  has  written  the  authoritative  account  of  the  life  and  career  of 
Graffenried,  based  throughout  on  the  original  manuscripts  given  him  by  the 
Graffenried  family.     Cf .  Christoph  von  Graffenried,  Landgraf  von  Carolina,  Griinder 
von   Neu-Bern,   zumeist   nach   Familienpapieren   und   Copien   seiner  amtlichen 
Berichte,  von  Wolfgang  Friedrich  von  Miilinen,  Neujahrsblatt  hrg.  v.  Historischen 
Verein  des  Kantons  Bern  fur  1897  (Bern,  1896).     A  trustworthy  and  very  readable 
account  in  English  of  Graffenried's  settlement  of  New  Bern  has  appeared  in  the 
Jahrbuch  der  Deutsch-Amerikanischen  Historischen  Gesellschaft  von  Illinois,  Jahr- 
gang  1912,  by  Vincent  H.  Todd:   "Christoph  von  Graffenried  and  the  Founding 
of  New  Bern,  N.  C."     The  reprint  is  entitled:    "Baron  Christoph  von  Graffen 
ried's  New  Bern  Adventures." 

8  Bern,  RM.,  XLI.  408. 

9  Bern,  Mandatenbuch,  1641,  1643,  1660;  see  Guide,  p.  33. 


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promise  of  reward  for  good  deeds.10  Remain  in  the  land  of  thy 
forefathers  and  earn  an  honest  living  therein,  is  the  admonition 
which  Luther  reads  out  of  the  Psalmist's  text,  and  which  is  spoken 
out  of  his  own  heart.  Emigration  is  sinful  and  its  wages  death,  so 
judged  the  sixteenth,  seventeenth,  and  most  of  the  eighteenth 
century;  the  nineteenth  introduced  a  more  liberal  view. 

There  were  some  good  reasons  for  the  policy  of  restricting,  if  not 
prohibiting,  emigration  in  the  eighteenth  century.  An  able-bodied 
emigrant  meant  the  loss  of  a  defender  of  the  land,  and  of  an  agri 
cultural  or  industrial  worker.  Especially  in  the  smaller  countries  of 
Central  Europe  a  large  loss  of  population  might  mean  political  or 
economic  ruin.  An  increase  of  population  seemed  the  result  of 
good  government,  a  decrease  an  indication  of  unsuccessful  or 
incapable  rulers.  Many  governments,  particularly  in  Switzerland, 
assumed  a  paternal  attitude  toward  their  subjects,  caring  for  their 
material  and  spiritual  welfare,  or  at  least  pretending  to  do  so.  They 
felt  this  duty  very  keenly  when  it  was  to  their  advantage.  Hearing 
that  many  emigrants  were  lost  at  sea,  and  that  many  others  met 
insuperable  difficulties  after  their  arrival  in  the  American  colonies, 
they  warned  their  subjects  in  fatherly  fashion,  and  soon  forbade 
their  leaving,  to  save  them  against  themselves.  Similarly  the 
Protestant  governments  were  very  much  concerned  for  the  spiritual 
welfare  of  such  as  might  in  1720  take  service  in  a  Catholic  province,11 
or  either  church  might  object  to  its  people  going  into  a  colony  of 
sectarians.  In  1716  the  Ratsherren  of  Bern  passed  a  resolution 
to  allow  only  those  to  emigrate  who  could  prove  that  they  were 
well  taught  in  religion  (and  were  poor).12  Thus  they  endeavored 
to  save  the  souls  of  their  people,  and  at  the  same  time  to  prevent 
the  spread  of  heretical  doctrines. 

After  the  colonization  scheme  of  1710  had  quickly  come  to  an 
end  at  Bern,  no  further  attempts  were  made  for  a  decade.  The 
initiative  then  twice  came  from  the  neighboring  principality  of 
Neuchatel  (Neuenburg).  In  1720  a  captain  in  the  regiment  Karrer 
by  the  name  of  Merveilleux  (alias  Wunderlich)  attempted  to  secure 
recruits  for  service  in  (the  island  of)  Mississippi.  He  seems  to  have 
succeeded  in  getting  "several  whole  families  of  poor  people,"  13  but 

10  Psalm  xxxvii.  3  in  the  Lutheran  Bible  reads:    "Hoffe  auf  den  Herrn  und 
thue  Gutes;  bleibe  im  Lande  und  nahre  dich  redlich."     The  English  Bible  inter 
prets:    "Trust  in  the  Lord,  and  do  good;    so  shalt  thou  dwell  in  the  land,  and 
verily  thou  shalt  be  fed." 

11  Expedition  of  Merveilleux,  service  in  Mississippi  region;  see  Guide,  p.  41,  etc. 

12  Bern,  RM.,  LXVIII.  36. 

13  Ibid.,  LXXXIV.  378;  Erlach-Buch  D.,  p.  661. 

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6  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

his  scheme  was  vigorously  opposed  by  Bern  and  other  governments, 
partly  owing  to  a  distrust  of  overseas  service,  and  partly  on  religious 
grounds,  as  described  above.  The  other  attempt  was  far  more  suc 
cessful  in  course  of  time.  It  was  the  plan  of  Jean  Pierre  Purry  of 
the  firm  Purry  et  Compagnie  in  Neuchatel  to  found  a  colony  in 
Carolina.  He  began  to  advertise  as  early  as  1725  for  three  or  four 
hundred  workingmen  of  different  professions,  all  Swiss  Protestants 
of  good  reputation  and  manners,  between  the  ages  of  twenty  and 
forty.  In  spite  of  his  advertisements,14  spread  broadcast  and 
posted  wherever  possible,  in  which  South  Carolina  was  praised  as 
one  of  the  "finest  countries  in  the  universe,"  Purry  did  not  make 
much  headway  until  about  five  years  later.  He  also  published  a 
book  descriptive  of  Carolina,  which  was  feared  with  good  reason  by 
paternal  Swiss  governments.  In  1732  Purry  established  his  colony 
of  Purrysburgh  with  ninety-three  colonists,  to  which  there  were  soon 
added  several  hundred  more.15  The  settlement  had  a  prosperous 
beginning  in  comparison  with  many  others,  and  is  noted  in  colonial 
history  for  its  experiment  in  silk  growing  and  manufacture. 

Social  and  economic  conditions  favored  an  increase  in  emigration 
during  the  thirties  and  forties  of  the  eighteenth  century.  In  Bern, 
Zurich,  Basel,  Luzern,  Appenzell,  Fribourg,  Vaud,  and  elsewhere, 
the  ruling  classes,  often  composed  of  a  few  patrician  families, 
bore  down  heavily  upon  the  city  and  country  folk,  depriving  them 
of  all  possibility  of  rising  above  their  wretched  economic  condition, 
and  enacting  offensive  laws,  such  as  those  forbidding  artisans  to 
carry  wares  under  the  arcades  (Lauben)  of  Bern,  so  that  the  patri 
cians  might  walk  through  them  in  comfort,  or  closing  the  vegetable 
market  to  all  but  the  noble  class  until  u  a.  m.  Rebellion  was  the 
consequence,  but  unfortunately  victory  always  remained  with  the 
aristocrats  until  the  French  Revolution  awakened  the  Swiss  people 
to  a  united  stand  for  their  liberties. 

During  this  period  Switzerland  remained  the  recruiting  ground 
for  the  powerful  nations  of  Europe.  Young  Swiss  noblemen  found 
it  a  profitable  business  to  equip  and  lead  regiments  in  foreign  armies, 
while  their  recruits,  good  soldiers  who  did  not  spare  themselves, 

14  See  Documents,  F.     DOCUMENTS  A-F,  referred  to  on  this  and  following 
pages,  are  contained  in  American  Historical  Review,  Vol.  XXII,  No.  I  (October, 
1916),  pp.  88-132.     Found  in  the  state  archives  of  Basel  and  Bern,  they  were 
published  to  accompany  this  article,  and  to  illustrate  problems  relating  to  the 
Swiss  emigration  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

15  Lists  of  their  names  are  given  in  the  authoritative  account  of  the  colony 
by  Judge  Henry  A.  M.  Smith,  entitled  "Purrysburgh,"  in  the  South  Carolina 
Historical  Magazine,  X.  187-219  (1909).     See  also  Guide,  p.  169,  etc. 


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received  none  of  the  bounteous  rewards.  A  large  percentage  of 
officers  and  men,  however,  never  returned  to  their  homes.  Swiss 
fought  against  Swiss  on  the  battlefields  of  Europe,  in  the  War  of 
the  Austrian  Succession,  as  often  before.  It  was  estimated  that  in 
1740  about  69,000  Swiss  mercenary  soldiers  served  in  foreign  armies, 
about  22,000  in  French,  2400  in  Austrian,  13,600  in  Spanish,  10,600 
in  Sardinian,  20,400  in  Dutch  service.16 

Add  to  these  conditions  periodic  failures  of  crops,  due  to  hail 
storms  and  floods,  as  in  the  Bernese  Oberland,  and  no  sentimental 
ties  nor  governmental  restrictions  could  restrain  the  desire  for  emi 
gration.  It  is  not  surprising  that  at  times  this  desire  rose  to  a 
passion,  that  threatened  to  depopulate  large  sections  and  gave  the 
governments  good  cause  for  alarm.  Such  an  emigration  epoch 
existed  in  Switzerland  between  1730  and  1750,  the  high  tide  coming 
between  1734  and  1744. 

What  started  the  movement  it  is  difficult  to  say.  Perhaps  the 
continuous  advertisements  of  J.  P.  Purry  had  the  effect  of  touching 
the  match  to  the  powder-barrel.  Perhaps  favorable  letters  from 
colonists  happy  in  the  new  country  had  been  coming  in  for  a  long 
time,  with  the  natural  suggestion  to  follow  after.  At  all  events  the 
emigration  fever  gave  visible  signs  of  becoming  epidemic. 

Zurich  acted  quickly,  issuing  a  decree,  November  3,  I734,17  for 
bidding  her  people  to  travel  to  Carolina,  preventing  the  sale  of 
property  by  those  wishing  to  emigrate,  proclaiming  punishment  of 
agents  enticing  people  to  emigrate  or  distributing  seductive  litera 
ture.  This  was  followed  after  a  few  months  by  the  decree  of 
January  29,  1735,  which  repeated  the  previous  commands,  and 
added  sterner  measures,  deprivation  of  citizenship  and  land-rights 
forever,  punishment  also  of  the  purchasers  of  property  sold  by 
emigrants,  close  watch  over  and  severe  punishment  of  persons 
enticing  others  to  leave.  The  decrees  were  read  from  all  the 
pulpits  in  town  and  country,  they  were  posted  in  public  places, 
yet  Zurich,  as  the  records  show,  found  it  necessary  to  let  large 
numbers  depart. 

Bern  did  not  act  as  promptly,  nor  with  the  same  decision.  She 
hesitated  before  sending  an  order,  July  6,  1734,  to  all  the  districts, 
warning  against  emigration  to  Carolina,  restricting  emigration  to  the 
homeless  class  and  to  sectarians,  who  were  even  to  be  assisted  with 

16  Cf.  Eroffnungsrede,  gehalten  in  der  Helvetischen  Gesellschaft  zu  Langenthal, 
den  31.  Mai  1843,  von  Regierungsrat  Fetscherin  in  Bern,  pp.  84-85.     Cf.  also: 
Johannes    Dierauer,    Geschichte   der   Schweizerischen   Eidgenossenschaft    (Gotha, 
1912),  IV.  234. 

17  This  decree  and  the  one  of  1735  are  printed  in  full  in  the  Guide,  pp.  15-17. 


8  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

funds  to  get  away.  The  policy  of  1710  seems  still  to  have  held  sway 
in  the  minds  of  many  of  the  Ratsherren,  that  of  using  America  as  a 
colony  for  deportation  of  undesirables.  A  letter  is  written  to  Unter- 
see,  urging  the  Amtmann  to  explain  to  those  desirous  of  leaving, 
that  the  ' '  printed  book  on  Carolina ' '  contains  falsehoods ;  those  who 
can  not  be  persuaded  to  remain,  shall  be  taxed  five  per  cent,  of  the 
value  of  their  property  (a  tax  raised  to  10  per  cent,  shortly  after). 
In  the  meantime  the  gun-maker  Striker  (Stryger)  of  Steffisburg  is 
suspected  of  being  an  emigrant  agent,  he  is  commanded  to  surrender 
his  list  of  names,  and  in  December  he  is  banished  from  the  country. 
Anxiously  Bern  inquires  of  Zurich,  what  she  is  doing  to  cure  the 
"emigration  fever."  Zurich  sends  copies  of  her  decrees  forbidding 
emigration,  whereupon  Bern  is  roused  to  publish  her  first  decree, 
January  12,  1735, 18  warning  her  people  of  the  Oberland  against  the 
trip  to  Carolina.  It  is  a  document  altogether  different  from  the 
Zurich  decrees,  in  that  it  attempts  to  use  persuasion  rather  than 
force.  The  Amtleute  are  to  explain  to  those  desirous  of  seeking 
their  fortunes  in  Carolina,  that  the  printed  accounts  on  the  subject 
are  misleading,  that  the  sea-journey  is  a  long  one,  the  change  of  air, 
the  strange  food,  the  lack  of  fresh  water,  occasion  sickness  and 
death  among  Swiss  people,  pirates  on  the  sea  sell  them  into  slavery, 
and  arriving  in  Carolina  as  paupers,  they  are  obliged  to  sell  them 
selves  into  servitude.  Those  who  in  spite  of  these  warnings  were 
determined  to  go,  should  not  be  prohibited  from  doing  so,  nor  would 
they  sacrifice  the  government's  good-will,  except  those  who  pos 
sessed  means  valued  at  over  five  hundred  pounds,  who  should  be 
compelled  to  give  up  their  citizenship  and  land-right.  Emigration 
was  not  to  be  prohibited,  but  made  distasteful,  and  the  country  was 
to  be  guarded  against  loss,  as  when  persons  of  the  homeless  class 
were  put  into  the  places  of  those  citizens  who  had  left  the  district. 
The  records  of  the  year  1735  at  Bern  show  continuous  emigra 
tion.  Investigations  concerning  Carolina  are  ordered  and  reports 
are  received.  On  February  3  a  vote  is  recorded  that  no  more  pass 
ports  shall  be  given  to  emigrants,  but  on  March  2,  on  their  petition, 
322  persons  are  allowed  to  leave  for  the  American  colonies,  and  on 
the  next  day  another  group  of  emigrants  from  Oberhasli  are  given 
permission,  provided  they  have  means  to  the  extent  of  five  hundred 
pounds,  defraying  their  expenses,  and  provided  children  left  behind 
be  cared  for.  On  March  13  three  ships  are  designated  to  transport 
the  greater  part  (Hauptschwarm)  of  the  emigrants.19  On  March 

18  The  decree  is  printed  in  full  in  the  Guide,  pp.  34-35. 

19  Bern,  RM.,  CXLVI.  215,  266,  270,  337. 


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17  a  group  are  given  back  the  ten  per  cent,  tax  which  they  had 
already  paid.  If  any  of  them  desire  to  return,  they  can  still  buy 
back  their  property.  If  children  do  not  desire  to  go  with  their 
parents,  they  are  to  receive  a  part  of  the  family  property.  March 
23  a  complaint  is  received  from  the  financial  agent  May  in  London 
concerning  the  distressing  condition  of  Swiss  (especially  from  Bern, 
Zurich,  Graubiinden)  emigrants  arriving  there.  Money  is  voted  to 
bring  them  back,  with  one  exception,  for  whom  a  guinea  is  sent  to 
continue  her  journey  to  America.  April  25  some  success  is  reported 
in  keeping  back  a  group  of  highlanders  of  Oberhasli  and  Interlaken, 
and  advice  is  asked  concerning  methods  of  providing  for  them. 
But,  a  few  months  after,  the  commissaire  in  London  reports  that  a 
number  of  Bernese,  desiring  to  go  to  Georgia,  had  arrived  in  Eng 
land.  On  September  26  measures  are  taken  against  a  certain 
person  named  Quinche  of  Neuchatel,  who  is  trying  to  entice  people 
to  go  to  Carolina  (probably  in  the  interests  of  Purrysburgh) .  This 
completes  the  record  of  the  excitement  at  Bern  for  the  year  1735. 
The  pressure  of  emigration  proved  irresistible.20 

A  vacillating  policy  in  regard  to  emigration  continued  at  Bern 
for  a  number  of  years  more.  An  optimistic  view  was  recorded  on 
May  5,  1738:  The  emigration  tax  (Abzug)  should  not  be  increased, 
first,  because  of  the  attention  thereby  directed  to  it  and  consequent 
dissatisfaction,  secondly,  because  emigration  was  on  the  'V^'ine, 
"the  RABIES  CAROLINAE"  had  happily  disappeared,  and  the 
people  had  allowed  themselves  to  be  persuaded  by  the  sad  fate  of  the 
best  of  the  emigrants  rather  than  by  the  paternal  advice  of  the  Rats- 
herren.21  But  emigration  had  by  no  means  stopped,  it  was  destined 
to  flow  again,  triumphantly,  especially  after  1740.  In  1741  Hans 
Riemensperger  of  Toggenburg  is  planning  to  induce  people  to  go 
with  him  to  Carolina  and  Georgia,  and  his  arrest  is  ordered.  Neu 
chatel  is  warned  against  him.  Peter  Huber  is  under  suspicion  the 
following  year,  when  the  "emigration  fever"  seems  to  start  anew. 
"  Auswanderung  wieder  lebhaft  im  Gang,"  is  an  entry  in  the  record 
book  on  March  I,  1742.  The  Bernese  highlanders  are  emigrating 
again  in  large  numbers.  Some  are  diverted  from  their  purpose  by 
offers  of  work  in  the  French  parts  of  the  canton.  In  view  of  the 
danger  the  policy  of  Bern  changes.  A  decree  is  issued  April  26,. 
1742,  forbidding  all  emigration  to  Carolina  or  elsewhere  in  America, 
under  heavy  penalties.  A  period  of  three  months  is  allowed  in 

20  See  Guide,  pp.  43-45. 

21  Sackelschreiber  Protokolle,  Y.,  Bern,  May  5,  1738. 


10  LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

which  emigrants  may  return,  after  which  loss  of  citizenship,  land- 
right,  and  property  will  be  enforced.  Property  shall  not  be  sent 
out  of  the  country,  but  shall  be  forfeited  to  the  community  which 
the  emigrant  has  left.  Children  under  age  (at  the  time  of  emigra 
tion)  may  return  to  their  rights  at  any  time,  others  shall  be  treated 
as  agents  attempting  to  entice  people  to  emigrate.  The  decree 
yielded  nothing  in  severity  to  those  of  Zurich  published  in  1734- 
1735  and  re-enforced  in  1739,  1741,  and  1744. 

In  spite  of  all  exertions  on  the  part  of  the  government,  so  it  is 
recorded  February  17,  1744,  people  from  the  Oberland  go  to  Caro 
lina  in  hordes  (haufenweise) .  They  are  allowed  to  go,  but  such  as 
return  are  to  be  put  into  prison.  Peter  Inabnit,  returning  from 
Carolina,  is  under  suspicion  and  is  thrown  into  prison.  On  the 
same  day,  March  17,  1744,  eighty  emigrants,  who  have  already  paid 
their  tax  (Abzug),  pass  by  the  city  of  Bern  in  a  boat.  Other  agents 
(Amerika-Werber)  appear,  Jakob  Walder  of  the  canton  of  Zurich, 
Jacob  Joner  of  Basel,  and  others.  Reports  having  appeared  in 
newspapers  that  many  thousands  of  emigrants  had  arrived  in  Basel 
ready  to  go  to  America  and  Nova  Scotia,  Bern  requests  Basel, 
Zurich,  and  other  cantons,  on  June  26,  to  suppress  such  newspaper 
reports  (whether  true  or  false).  Similarly  a  French  paper  of  Bern 
is  rebuked  in  1750  (February  26),  for  publishing  an  article  on  Caro 
lina  and  Pennsylvania,  "where  people  make  their  fortunes."  In 
the  same  year,  after  a  group  from  the  Oberland  has  succeeded  in 
egtting  a  ship  at  Yverdun  to  take  them  over  the  lake,  emigrants  are 
thenceforth  forbidden  to  take  ship  at  this  point.  Letters  are  con 
stantly  searched  for  and  confiscated;  in  1753  the  bearers  of 
letters,  Hans  Zurfliih  and  Hans  Wyss,  are  imprisoned  for  twenty- 
four  hours,  and  then  compelled  to  leave  the  country  within  a 
week. 

Preachers  who  came  to  Switzerland  soliciting  funds  for  churches 
or  Bibles,  or  seeking  ministers  for  churches  in  America,  were 
thought  to  be  especially  dangerous,  since  they  could  not  be  punished 
by  the  laws,  yet  their  presence  had  the  effect  of  enticing  people  to 
emigration.  Therefore  they  were  given  the  consilium  abeundi  and 
to  facilitate  their  speedy  departure,  their  hotel  and  travelling  ex 
penses  (to  the  border)  were  given  them.  This  happened  to  Michael 
Schlatter  (prominent  organizer  of  Reformed  churches  in  America) 
in  1751,  and  to  Pastor  Gasser  (minister  of  the  Reformed  church  at 
Santee  Forks,  South  Carolina)  in  1755,  who  shortly  after  was 
ordered  to  be  arrested  on  .the  charge  of  influencing  people  at  Inter- 
laken.  Thus  the  Ratsherren  of  Bern  had  troubles  unceasing  in  the 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       11 

attempt  to  keep  their  people  at  home,  and  even  in  1766  and  later 
complained  of  losing  their  population.22 

Basel  felt  the  pressure  of  emigration  immediately  because  of  her 
location  at  the  gateway  of  travel.  She  had  cause  to  complain  of 
emigrants  arriving  in  a  pauperized  condition,  waiting  to  be  trans 
ported.23  A  large  number  of  emigrants  were  examined  as  to  the 
causes  of  their  leaving,24  the  most  common  reasons  given  being  pov 
erty,  lack  of  employment,  and  failure  of  crops,  while  the  hope  of 
bettering  their  condition,  or  making  their  fortunes  appears  very 
seldom.  The  government  of  Basel  commonly  allowed  emigrants  to 
pass  on,  though  vigorous  efforts  were  made  to  discourage  wholesale 
emigration.  As  early  as  1735  difficulties  were  created  for  emigrants 
who  wished  to  sell  their  property  (Vergantung,  or  Ganten);  the  ten 
per  cent,  tax25  also,  and  an  additional  sum  for  manumission  in  the 
case  of  those  in  bondage,  were  exacted,  except  that  those  whose  pos 
sessions  amounted  to  less  than  one  hundred  pounds26  were  released 
from  all  payments.  Many  there  were  who  had  not  a  penny,  which 
circumstance  is  also  faithfully  recorded  in  the  official  lists,27  some 
times  with  a  spark  of  unconscious  humor,  as:  Hans  Jacob  Marcklin 
from  Diirnen  has  I  wife,  4  children,  and  otherwise  nothing  (sonst 
nichts).  Martin  Gass  from  Rothenflue  has  i  wife,  8  children,  and 
nothing  more  (weiter  nichts}.  The  same  list  reports  that:  Hans 
Rudi  Erb  from  Rotenflue  is  unmarried,  has  a  bad  face,  and  130 
pounds  worth  of  property.  To  avoid  the  tax  or  for  other  reasons 
many  emigrants  left  their  homes  in  secret,  leaving  behind  letters  to 
their  friends,  or  sending  them  regretful  notice  of  their  departure 
after  having  crossed  the  border.  These  are  referred  to  as  Heimliche 
Emigranten  in  the  records  of  Basel.28 

The  decrees  of  Basel,  finally  forbidding  emigration  to  America, 
resemble  those  of  Zurich  and  Bern.  The  one  of  1749,  printed  in 
full  among  the  Documents29  accompanying  this  article,  prohibits  the 
securing  of  an  inheritance  by  anyone  who  has  left  the  country;  the 
emigrant  is  to  be  considered  as  "dead,"  and  bereft  of  rights.  This 

22  The  subject  may  be  followed  in  detail  by  consulting  the  Ratsmanuale,  in 
Guide,  pp.  40-53. 

23  Cf.  Guide,  p.  101,  etc. 

24  See  Documents,  D,  i  and  2. 

25  Cf.  Kaspar  Hauser,  "Ueber  den  Abzug  in  der  Schweiz,"  in  Jahrbuch  fur 
Schweizerische  Geschichte,  hrg.  auf  Veranstaltung  der  Allgemeinen  Geschichts- 
forschenden  Gesellschaft  der  Schweiz,  Bd.  XXXIV.  (Zurich,  1909). 

26  The  value  of  the  pound,  Basel  currency,  was  about  two  francs. 

27  See  Documents,  D,  i. 

28  For  a  specimen  of  such  a  letter,  see  Documents  under  B,  no.  4. 

29  See  under  Documents,  E,  i. 


12  LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN    THE 

mandate  was  renewed  in  1771,  and  an  additional  decree  was  pub 
lished  in  1773,  aimed  particularly  at  crafty  emigrant  agents,  at 
tempting  to  collect  inheritances  for  friends  in  America.  The  word 
Neuldnder  is  here30  used  for  Werber,  agent.  The  petitions  and 
records  at  Basel  show  that  the  high  tide  of  emigration  at  that  city 
occurred  between  1734  and  1752;  another  wave  started  about  1767 
and  lasted  until  1773,  when  it  was  interrupted  by  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Emigration  started  again,  though  feebly,  in  I786.31 

The  archives  of  Schaffhausen  give  evidence  of  emigration  from 
that  quarter  in  large  numbers  between  1734  and  1748.  The  Chron 
icle  of  the  city  (Harder  Chronik}  refers  to  this  emigration  several 
times,  e.g.,  September  8,  1738: 

In  June  many  poor  people  from  neighboring  districts,  notably  Meris- 
hausen  and  Reiat,  emigrated  to  North  America.  When  then  also  some 
[of  our]  subjects  at  Riidlingen  and  Buchberg  made  the  unseasonable 
resolve  to  leave  their  fatherland  and  travel  to  far  distant  lands,  and  thus 
in  thoughtless  manner  expose  themselves  to  great  discomfort  and  ex 
treme  wretchedness  with  repentance  coming  too  late,  the  government 
"stepped  in"  and  forbade  emigration  on  penalty  of  the  loss  of  land-right. 

The  cantons  of  Aargau,  Solothurn,  and  especially  Graubiinden 
also  furnished  a  quota  of  emigrants  in  the  eighteenth  century, 
though  the  records  have  been  lost.  There  was  emigration  also  from 
Luzern  and  the  forest  cantons,  though  the  emigration  from  Catholic 
was  smaller  than  from  Protestant  cantons.  Interesting  plans  were 
proposed  from  time  to  time,  to  employ  those  desiring  to  emigrate  in 
some  remunerative  industry,  or  to  use  the  undivided  land  (Allmend) 
or  the  forests  (Hochwald)  for  the  benefit  of  the  hopelessly  poor. 
Almost  without  exception,  however,  these  plans  were  never  put  into 
execution,  and  in  the  very  few  cases  when  they  were  carried  out, 
they  lived  only  a  very  short  time.32 

The  archives  of  Switzerland  throw  new  light  on  the  character 
and  methods  of  the  emigrant  agent.  Owing  to  the  severe  penalties 
placed  upon  the  trade,  he  appears  as  a  far  more  subtle  individual 
than  the  traditional  Neuldnder.  The  latter  (so  he  is  generally 
depicted),  having  failed  as  a  colonist  and  finding  "emigrant-hunt 
ing"  a  far  more  profitable  means  of  livelihood,  affected  the  appear 
ance  of  wealth,  with  his  conspicuous  attire  and  heavy  gold  watch  and 

30  See  under  Documents,  E,  2. 

31  See  Guide,  pp.  101-107. 

32  Cf.  Dr.  E.  Lerch,  Die  Bernische  Auswanderung  nach  Amerika  im  18.  Jahr- 
hundert,  separate  print  from  the  Blatter  fur  Bernische  Geschichte,  Kunst,  und 
Altertumskunde,  Jahrgang  V.,  Heft  4,  December,  1909,  pp.  19-31.     Cf.  also  Bern, 
Responsa  Prudentum,  Guide,  p.  55. 


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chain,  and  loudly  proclaimed  tales  of  easily  acquired  wealth,  bear 
ing  forged  letters  in  witness  of  his  claims.  Such  a  figure  may  have 
existed  and  flourished  at  the  seaports  of  Europe  and  America,  but 
he  could  not  have  survived  longer  than  a  day  in  the  upper  Rhine 
country  or  in  Switzerland.  Watchful  eyes  would  have  been  upon 
him,  and  the  reward  would  have  been  collected  for  his  capture  twice 
before  he  could  have  earned  a  single  fee  for  bringing  an  emigrant  to 
port.  The  successful  emigrant  agent  was  a  person  of  an  entirely 
different  description,  shrewd,  tactful,  inconspicuous,  denying  any 
purpose  of  his  visit,  except  to  collect  a  debt  or  inheritance  for  a 
friend  in  America.  He  was  careful  not  to  arouse  suspicion,  and 
gave  information  only  when  asked  for  it.  A  good  view  of  his 
methods  can  be  derived  from  the  records  at  Bern  and  Basel  of  trials 
(Verhore)  of  persons  suspected  of  enticing  emigrants.  Two  of  these 
are  of  particular  interest,  the  examination  of  Peter  Huber  at  Basel 
and  Bern  in  1742,  and  of  Peter  Inabnit  at  Bern,  in  1744.  The  ver 
batim  reports  of  these  trials,  found  in  the  archives  of  Bern  and 
Basel,  are  published  here  for  the  first  time,  accompanying  this 
article.33 

Peter  Huber  was  taken  captive  at  Basel  on  the  request  of  Bern. 
The  examination  at  Basel  reveals  that  he  was  a  native  of  Oberhasli 
in  the  Bernese  Oberland,  about  thirty  years  of  age,  and  by  trade  a 
shoemaker.  He  was  on  his  way  back  to  Carolina,  accompanied  by 
his  wife  and  two  children,  whom  he  had  come  to  fetch  the  fore 
going  summer.  One  daughter  had  gone  with  him  to  Carolina  on  his 
first  trip,  about  eight  years  before  (1734),  and  she  had  remained  in 
Carolina.  To  the  question,  whether  he  had  any  other  travelling 
companions,  he  answered  that  his  sister  was  bringing  his  baggage 
for  him,  and  another  woman,  Barbara  Horger,  expected  to  go  with 
him  to  Carolina.  He  denied  knowing  aught  of  the  group  of  emi 
grants  who  had  arrived  at  Basel,  and  affirmed  positively  that  he 
had  not  urged  anyone  to  make  the  journey  with  him.  A  number  of 
emigrants  at  Basel  were  examined,34  one  of  whom  declared  that  he 
had  been  enticed  by  Huber,  but  that  now,  yielding  to  the  advice  of 
the  authorities,  he  would  prefer  to  remain.  All  ten  others  denied 
that  Huber  had  put  the  idea  into  their  heads,  and  all  but  two 
insisted  on  being  allowed  to  go.  So  far  no  damaging  evidence  was 
brought  against  Huber.  He  was  then  taken  to  Bern  in  custody, 
and  subjected  to  a  more  searching  trial.  The  questions  show  that  a 
body  of  facts  had  been  collected  against  him  that  might  indeed 

33  See  Documents,  A,  I,  3,  4. 

34  See  under  Documents,  A,  2. 


14  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

arouse  suspicion,  but  such  was  Huber's  skill  in  answering  them, 
that  he  could  not  be  convicted  on  the  first  examination.  Some  of 
the  questions  and  answers  were  as  follows : 

Q.:  Could  he  [Huber]  deny,  that  he  had  desired  to  take  some  people 
away  with  him? 

A.:  He  had  desired  to  take  no  one  away,  except  his  sister,  and  the 
foreigner  Jacob  Lanu,  who  had  worked  in  the  mines  for  seven  years. 
The  latter  had  frequently  approached  him  asking  to  be  taken  along,  but 
he  [Huber]  had  refused,  saying  that  such  a  thing  was  prohibited.  The 
inspector  of  the  mines  had,  however,  told  Lanu  that,  being  a  free  man, 
he  could  go  wherever  he  wished.  [Lanu  was  not  a  Bernese  subject.] 

When  Lanu  was  confronted  with  Huber,  contrary  to  his  previous 
statement,  he  declared  that  Huber  had  not  enticed  him,  but  that  he 
wanted  to  go  on  his  own  free  will. 

Q.:  Did  not  Peter  Scherz  of  Aeschi  come  to  him  [Huber]  at  Unter- 
seen,  and  ask,  whether  a  weaver  could  with  wife  and  children  make  a 
living  in  Carolina? 

A.:  Scherz  had  come  to  him  at  Zollbriick,  crossed  the  lake  and  spent 
the  night  with  him,  but  that  he  [Huber]  had  told  him  there  were  enough 
weavers  in  Carolina,  moreover  that  Scherz  had  not  enough  money  for 
so  long  a  journey.  Subsequently  he  had  received  two  letters  from  Scherz, 
which  he  had  not  answered. 

Q.:  Whether  he  did  not  urge  Hans  Aebiger  to  go  to  Carolina? 

A.:  Aebiger  had  come  to  him  and  asked  how  the  hunting  was  in 
Carolina?  Upon  this  he  had  described  the  country.  Aebiger  also  asked 
him  about  a  gun,  which  Aebiger  offered  him. 

Aebiger  affirmed,  when  examined,  that  Huber  had  awakened  in 
him  the  desire  to  emigrate,  and  especially  in  his  wife,  who  left  him 
no  peace  about  it,  but  that  he  was  willing  to  remain,  rather  than 
incur  the  ill-will  of  the  government.  Several  others  also  were  exam 
ined.35  Those  who  decided  to  remain,  perhaps  in  order  to  better 
their  chances  with  the  authorities,  threw  the  blame  on  Huber,  while 
those  who  were  firm  in  their  resolution  to  go,  exonerated  Huber 
from  any  attempt  to  entice  them. 

After  a  number  of  other  questions  on  individual  cases,  the  court 
declared  that  it  was  very  plain  that  Huber  had  enticed  the  poor 
people  by  praising  Carolina;  he  should  therefore  confess  in  order  to 
secure  more  gracious  treatment.  Thereupon  Huber  boldly  affirmed, 
that  he  had  spoken  nothing  but  the  truth;  he  had  given  up  his 
citizenship  and  land-right,  and  had  enticed  no  one;  no  person  would 

31  See  under  Documents,  A,  3  (at  the  close). 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       15 

dare  to  confront  him  with  such  a  charge.     Huber  was  remanded 
to  prison. 

A  few  days  later  a  slip  of  paper  was  discovered,  which  Huber 
had  thrown  out  of  the  prison  window,  and  on  which  he  told  those 
who  were  still  minded  to  travel  with  him  to  Carolina,  to  go  and 
tarry  for  a  while  in  the  neighboring  Neuchatel;  as  soon  as  he  was 
set  free  he  would  come  to  them  and  take  them  along  with  him  to 
Carolina.  Upon  this  new  evidence  Huber  was  tried  again.  The 
examiners  skillfully  concealed  their  discovery  at  first,  in  the  hope 
of  extracting  more  information,  and  cautioned  him  to  adhere  strictly 
to  the  truth. 

Q.:  What  route  had  he  [Huber]  taken  on  his  previous  journey  to 
Carolina? 

A.:  By  way  of  Burgundy  [i.e.,  Neuchatel-Besangon],  and  France  to 
Calais. 

Q.:  Why  then  did  he  take  a  different  route  this  time,  and  go  by  way 
of  the  Briinig  Pass,  Unterwalden,  Basel? 

The  question  was  a  critical  one,  for  there  was  suspicion,  that 
he  was  taking  people  from  the  Oberland  by  the  mountain  route  to 
Lucerne,  and  thence  to  Basel,  keeping  them  out  of  the  jurisdiction 
of  Bern.  Otherwise  they  would  have  to  come  by  way  of  Thun  and 
pass  Bern,  on  the  way  to  Neuchatel. 

A.:  He  had  intended  to  take  his  former  route,  but  in  order  to  avoid 
suspicion,  and  being  followed  by  emigrants,  he  preferred  the  other  route. 

Q. :  Whether  he  did  not  know  that  people  had  gone  ahead  to  Basel  to 
await  him  there? 

A.:  No,  he  had  heard  that  one  or  another  had  gone  down  from  the 
Oberland,  but  where  they  intended  to  go  he  did  not  know,  except  in  the 
case  of  Barbara  Horger,  who  accompanied  him. 

Q.:  He  should  tell  truthfully,  whether  this  was  not  a  plan,  to  meet  at 
Basel,  and  then  go  together  to  Carolina? 

A.:  No!  He  had  nothing  to  do  with  those  people,  for  he  expected 
to  take  his  usual  route  from  Basel  by  land  to  Calais,  while  those  people 
were  going  to  take  the  Rhine  route,  and  a  ship  had  already  been  engaged 
for  them. 

New  evidence  was  now  brought  against  him;  his  baggage  had 
been  examined  and  a  most  interesting  device  for  concealing  letters 
was  found  therein. 

Q.:  Was  he  [Huber]  not  in  possession  of  a  wooden  vessel  [holzernes 
Geschirr],  the  top  of  which  would  hold  drink,  and  the  bottom  of  which 
could  be  used  for  concealing  letters? 


16  LISTS   OF  SWISS  EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

A.:  Yes,  such  a  one  was  made  for  him  by  Hans  Roth  in  Carolina,  and 
could  be  found  in  his  baggage. 

Q. :  Had  he  not  given  Landsvenner  Sterchi36  at  Zollbriick  a  ring  and 
seal,  by  which  he  could  recognize  letters  coming  from  him? 

A.:  No!  He  had,  however,  brought  with  him  a  letter  of  Peter  Zaugg 
in  Carolina  to  Sterchi;  he  knew  not  if  anything  of  the  sort  were  con 
tained  therein. 

Q.:  Since  he  [Huber]  had  thus  far  been  very  obstinate  in  denying 
answers  to  questions,  at  the  same  time  had  assured  the  court,  that  he 
would  gladly  confess  all  that  was  true,  they  wished  now  to  see  how 
earnestly  he  loved  the  truth:  Did  he  not,  the  day  before  yesterday,  throw 
[from  his  prison  window]  toward  a  woman  of  his  part  of  the  country 
[Oberland],  a  piece  of  paper,  on  which  was  written,  that  those  that  still 
had  a  desire  to  travel  with  him,  should  go  to  Neuchatel  and  tarry  there 
a  while,  that  he  hoped  his  case  was  not  so  bad  that  he  might  not  soon  be 
free,  and  when  at  liberty  he  would  come  and  in  passing  take  them  with 
him,  they  would  then  directly  be  in  Burgundy,  and  could  pass  on  un 
hindered? 

A.:  At  this  question  he  seemed  altogether  terrified,  looked  about  him 
to  one  side  and  another,  and  for  some  time  did  not  know  what  to  say, 
and  the  tears  came  to  his  eyes.  Finally  he  answered:  Yes!  He  could 
not  deny  this;  he  had  thought,  that  when  once  free  and  finding  these 
people  outside  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Bern,  he  could  take  them  along 
without  doing  any  wrong,  but  he  confessed  being  grievously  at  fault  in 
this,  and  humbly  besought  God's  and  Their  Graces'  pardon.  [Act. 
March  21,  1742.] 

Huber  was  taken  back  to  prison,  but  was  evidently  set  free  soon 
after,  and  banished  forever,  perhaps  under  threat  of  the  death 
penalty  if  he  were  caught  attempting  to  return.  We  learn  from  the 
testimony  of  Peter  Inabnit,  two  years  later,  that  Huber  arrived  in 
Carolina  with  a  small  number  of  emigrants,  perhaps  with  more  than 
the  examinee  was  willing  to  state. 

Peter  Inabnit  (Imabnit,  In  Abnit,  or  Im  Abnit),  brought  to  trial 
in  1744,  was  not  so  fortunate.  He  lost  his  life  in  the  venture,  though 
equally  clever  and  perhaps  better  instructed,  for  Inabnit  left  Caro 
lina  after  Huber  had  returned,  and  probably  received  directions 
from  him.  Peter  Inabnit  had  left  Switzerland  in  1734  with  his 
parents  and  their  children,  when  he  was  still  under  age.  He  was 
therefore  privileged  to  return  to  his  home  in  Grindelwald,  and  could 
lawfully  remain  there  if  he  wished,  for  the  law  debarring  an  emigrant 
from  all  rights  did  not  apply  to  his  children  leaving  under  age.  It 

36  Landsvenner  (Bannertrager)  Sterchi  was  a  friend  of  emigrants;  see  his. 
name  mentioned  in  a  letter,  Documents,  C,  2. 


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was  very  clever  on  the  part  of  Inabnit  to  declare  that  he  wished  to 
live  in  Switzerland,  and  not  return  to  Carolina.  He  was  about 
twenty- five  years  of  age  in  1743,  when  he  reappeared  in  the  Ober- 
land,  to  collect  some  money  from  a  relative  in  his  native  town  of 
Grindelwald.  He  was  observed  moving  from  place  to  place,  notably 
in  the  districts  of  Hasli  and  Interlaken,  whence  most  of  the  emi 
grants  had  always  come.  He  also  visited  Reichenbach  (located 
near  Bern  on  the  peninsula  of  the  river  Aare),  then  the  seat  of  the 
English  envoy.  He  had  been  seen  surrounded  by  large  crowds  of 
people,  especially  on  Sundays,  and  he  was  asked  all  sorts  of  questions 
by  them,  but  was  moderate  in  his  speech.  He  was  also  reported 
to  have  brought  letters  from  Carolina.  For  all  of  these  circum 
stances  he  was  under  suspicion,  and  was  soon  brought  before  a 
court  for  examination.37 

Many  a  prisoner  fell  a  victim  to  his  inquisitors  on  the  initial 
question,  why  have  you  been  taken  captive?  Not  so,  Peter  Inabnit. 
He  expressed  ignorance  and  surprise. 

Q. :  Why  was  he  still  remaining  in  the  country,  though  his  business 
must  have  been  settled  long  ago? 

A.:  He  expected  to  remain  in  Switzerland.  In  Carolina  he  had  lived 
nine  years,  and  suffered  from  illness  all  but  the  first  two,  for  that  reason 
he  did  not  like  the  country,  and  did  not  expect  to  return. 

Q.:  There  were  reasons  to  doubt  this,  for  it  was  known,  that  he  had 
come  with  a  very  different  purpose;  he  should  tell  squarely,  whether  he 
had  not  come  to  entice  some  of  his  countrymen,  and  engage  them  to  go 
with  him  to  Carolina? 

A.:  God  forbid!     He  had  not  come  to  take  anybody  with  him. 

Q. :  How  could  he  explain,  that  wherever  he  appeared  in  the  Ober- 
land,  crowds  of  people  gathered  about  him,  and  since  then  it  was  found 
that  a  great  many  desired  to  emigrate? 

A.:  Of  that  he  knew  nothing,  but  he  could  tell  no  other  reason,  than 
that  they  wanted  to  hear  something  about  how  their  relatives  in  Carolina 
were  getting  along. 

Q.:  Had  he  not  praised  the  country,  or  talked  about  it  to  anyone? 

A.:  To  many  who  asked  out  of  curiosity,  he  had  spoken  about  the 
nature  of  the  country,  but  no  one  could  prove,  that  he  had  advised  any 
one  to  go  there. 

Q.:  Whether  he  did  not  write  a  letter  to  the  English  envoy  with  this 
intention? 

A.:  At  this  he  was  somewhat  taken  aback.  Finally  he  confessed  hav 
ing  written  the  letter,38  saying  he  never  intended  delivering  it  to  the 

37  See  Documents,  A,  4. 

38  The  letter  in  question  has  survived;   it  is  printed  in  full  under  Documents, 
A,  4.     It  reported  to  the  English  resident  at  Reichenbach,  that  there  were  about 


18  LISTS  OF   SWISS    EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

envoy,  but  merely  wished  to  satisfy  those  who  urged  him  to  do  so.  No 
sensible  person,  said  he,  would  ever  think,  that  anything  could  be  accom 
plished  in  this  way. 

Q.:  Would  he  deny  having  been  at  Reichenbach,  in  order  to  speak 
with  the  envoy? 

A.:  To  be  sure,  he  had  been  there,  but  had  had  no  audience  with  the 
envoy.39 

Q.:  Whether  he  did  not,  at  Grindelwald,  station  himself  in  the  church 
yard  on  Sundays,  and  commend  Carolina  to  the  people? 

A.:  He  never  staid  long  in  the  churchyard,  but  many  people  came  to 
him  in  the  inn,  but  he  told  them  nothing  more  than  what  they  asked 
about  Carolina. 

Q.:  \Vhether  he  had  not  brought  letters  from  Carolina,  that  undoubt 
edly  gave  a  favorable  enough  account  of  the  country? 

A.:  Yes.     Eight  letters,  one  to  Grindelwald,  and  seven  to  Oberhasli. 

Questioned  about  the  letters  in  another  examination,  he  said  he 
knew  not  the  contents,  except  that  Christen  Brauen  wrote  to  his 
father,  that  he  had  arrived  safely,  but  not  having  had  sufficient 
means,  he  had  been  obliged  to  serve  for  four  years.  People  in 
Carolina,  Inabnit  declared,  had  tried  to  overload  him  with  letters, 
but  he  had  refused  except  in  behalf  of  his  nearest  friends,  because 
only  trouble  came  of  it. 

Q.:  Who  had  told  him  to  write  to  the  English  envoy? 

A.:  He  could  not  tell,  but  he  had  been  urged  from  many  quarters. 

Q. :  Why  did  he  wish  to  speak  to  the  English  envoy  personally? 

A.:  He  wanted  to  offer  his  services,  since  he  had  heard  that  the  Eng 
lish  resident  desired  a  servant  who  could  speak  English.  But  he  did 
not  succeed  in  seeing  him. 

Q.:  What  had  he  told  the  people  about  Carolina,  making  so  many  of 
them  anxious  to  go  there? 

A.:  He  had  not  said  anything  specially  about  it,  except  in  answer 
to  questions;  moreover,  he  had  neither  praised  nor  blamed  the  country, 
but  of  course  told  them  what  the  conditions  were,  and  that  over  there  as 
here,  whoever  brought  nothing  was  in  a  bad  way,  and  although  as  a  car 
penter  he  had  earned  15  batzen  a  day,  he  did  not  wish  to  go  back,  be 
cause  he  could  not  pull  through  very  well. 

200  persons  ready  to  go  to  Carolina,  if  the  Hon.  Ambassador  would  open  his 
generous  hand,  but  that  most  of  the  people  were  poor,  and  some  that  were  not  did 
not  know  how  to  get  their  property  away.  Some  had  small  children  and  did  not 
know  how  to  go  about  the  matter  of  the  journey.  They  wanted  also  to  know 
something  about  the  period  of  service. 

39  It  would  have  been  very  unwise  for  the  envoy  to  receive  a  person  offering 
to  violate  the  laws  of  the  country  to  which  he  was  accredited. 


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Q.:  Had  not  in  the  preceding  year  Peter  Huber  taken  people  to  Caro 
lina?  [An  attempt  to  connect  him  with  the  convicted  agent.] 

A.:  There  were  nine  or  ten  persons  who  arrived  with  him,  but  he 
[Huber]  could  not  have  derived  any  benefit  therefrom,  especially  since 
some,  for  their  travelling  expenses,  had  to  serve  those  who  had  released 
them  from  the  ship. 

Q.:  He  should  once  for  all  tell  the  truth,  and  say,  whether  he  had 
not  been  sent  expressly  to  bring  people  into  the  country? 

A. :  No,  he  had  merely  wished  to  see  his  fatherland  again,  and  remain 
here,  or  in  Germany. 

The  document  goes  on  to  say,  that  after  the  prisoner,  in  spite  of 
expostulations,  threats  of  torture,  and  confrontation  with  the  exe 
cutioner,  had  refused  further  statement  or  confession,  he  was  taken 
up  to  the  torture-chamber  and  once  more  vehemently  urged,  and 
threatened  with  the  application  of  torture — nevertheless  he  adhered 
firmly  to  his  previous  statements,  viz.,  that  he  had  not  come  to  entice 
anyone  to  go  to  'Carolina,  that  he  did  not  know  what  was  contained 
in  the  letters  he  brought  with  him,  that  he  himself  did  not  intend  to 
return  to  Carolina,  and  no  one  could  charge  that  he  had  lured  any 
one  to  go,  on  the  contrary  he  had  rather  advised  against  than  in 
favor  of  emigrating.  For  the  rest  he  realized  that  he  was  in  the 
power  of  the  high  authorities,  they  could  do  with  him  whatever  they 
wished,  however  he  begged  that  they  graciously  give  him  his  liberty. 
Upon  that  he  was  condemned  to  stand  in  the  stocks,  and  then  ban 
ished  forever.  This  was  in  February,  1744. 

In  spite  of  his  cleverness,  courage,  and  firmness,  Peter  Inabnit 
failed,  for  he  lacked  the  quality  of  caution.  He  made  the  mistake 
of  writing  too  many  letters,  dangerous  instruments,  for  they  could 
easily  get  into  the  wrong  hands.  Instead  of  leaving  Switzerland  at' 
once,  he  was  discovered  at  Basel  during  the  following  month,  and 
brought  once  more  to  Bern.  There  he  was  forced  to  confess  that 
he  had  written  letters  to  Hans  Nageli,  Christen  Brunner,  and  Hans 
Miiller,  instructing  them  how  to  go  about  preparing  for  the  journey 
to  Carolina.  He  claimed  that  he  was  greatly  urged  to  do  so,  was 
under  the  influence  of  drink,  and  believed  he  was  doing  no  wrong, 
since  he  was  banished  anyway  (not  a  convincing  argument).  He 
confessed  having  written  also  to  Grindelwald  for  the  money  which 
was  coming  to  him,  and  to  his  cousin  Christen  Feller,  near  Thun, 
inviting  him  to  go  with  him  to  England  to  visit  a  relative.  Con 
cerning  the  letter  from  Philip  Wild  of  Rotterdam,40  he  explained 

40  This  letter  to  Peter  Inabnit  was  captured,  according  to  a  record  in  the  Rats- 
manuale  of  Bern,  February  20,  1744.  It  seemed  to  prove  that  Inabnit  had  insti 
gated  about  70  families  to  emigrate.  On  this  evidence  he  was  ordered  to  be 
arrested  again.  See  Guide,  p.  47. 


20  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IX   THE 

that  the  blacksmith  Jacob  Ritschard41  had  for  several  years  back 
planned  to  go  to  Carolina,  and  had  requested  him  to  write  for  in 
formation  to  Rotterdam,  which  he  did,  asking  Wild  to  reply  to 
Ritschard.  For  himself  he  had  done  nothing,  and  was  not  minded 
to  go  back  to  Carolina,  and  no  one  could  bear  witness  against  him, 
saying  that  he  had  enticed  anyone.  Therefore  he  prayed  for  his 
release.  This  was  on  March  27,  1744. 

The  court  sent  Peter  Inabnit  back  into  confinement.  His  prison 
was  one  of  those  picturesque  old  towers  still  standing  in  the  city  of 
Bern,  the  one  still  known  as  the  Kafigturm  (the  cage- tower,  i.e., 
prison-tower).  The  prisoner  had  many  friends,  and  they  were 
willing  to  aid  him.  They  brought  him  food  and  wine;  a  tool  for 
boring  was  smuggled  in  to  him  and  a  rope,  by  which  he  planned  to 
let  himself  down  and  make  his  escape.  Unfortunately  an  accident 
prevented  the  successful  issue  of  his  daring  venture.  The  rope 
seems  to  have  been  securely  fastened,  but  either  the  rope  broke  or 
the  prisoner  lost  his  hold.  He  was  discovered  lying  bleeding  and 
unconscious  at  the  base  of  the  tower.  The  abettor  of  emigration 
was  carried  to  a  neighboring  inn,  but  never  recovered  speech  or  con 
sciousness  from  after  nine  in  the  evening,  when  he  was  found,  until 
seven  in  the  morning,  when  he  died.  No  sympathy  was  wasted  on 
him  by  the  rulers  of  Bern.  "Owing  to  clearly  proven  and  partly 
confessed  crimes  of  the  deceased,  the  body  was  ordered  to  be  buried 
under  the  place  of  public  execution,"  thus  abruptly  ends  the  chron 
icle  of  the  career  of  Peter  Inabnit.42 

Both  men,  Peter  Huber  and  Peter  Inabnit,  will  be  pardoned  for 
their  crimes  by  the  American  historian.  Though  dangerous  to  the 
interests  of  their  home  governments,  they  were  indispensable  helpers 
in  the  building  up  of  the  new  colonies,  of  a  new  people.  They  were 
unselfish  in  the  main,  aiding  the  poor  to  a  condition  of  self-support, 
and  their  friends  to  social  and  economic  betterment.  There  were 
many  agents  who  were  not  of  as  high  character,  e.g.,  Jacob  Joner, 
whose  selfishness  and  greed  led  him  to  attempt  to  acquire  the 
inheritance  of  a  fellow-countryman,  as  his  trial  at  Basel  in  1750 
proved.43  There  were  agents  good  and  bad,  and  their  activities 

41  Ritschard  was  examined  with  others  of  the  Huber  group.     As  stated  by 
Peter  Inabnit,  Ritschard  had  for  several  years  been  anxious  to  go  to  Carolina. 
He  denied  that  Huber  had  influenced  him,  but  that  a  book  on  Carolina  had  started 
his  interest.     Ritschard  claimed  to  have  relatives  in  Holland  (Leiden),  whom  he 
wished  to  see  and  from  whom  he  expected  assistance.     See  Documents,  A,  3  (end). 

42  In  Documents,  A,  4,  at  the  end,  will  be  found  statements  of  fellow-prisoners 
concerning  Inabnit,  who  is  given  a  good  character  by  them.     Their  accounts 
add  a  touch  of  intense  realism  to  the  tragic  close. 

43  See  Guide,  p.  112  ff.,  etc. 


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were  far  more  hidden,  their  methods  far  more  subtle  than  has  gen 
erally  been  supposed. 

Next  to  emigrant  agents,  letters  from  colonists  with  favorable 
comments  on  the  new  country  were  considered  the  greatest  danger. 
Letters  of  this  kind  as  early  as  1711  have  survived,44  and  these  were 
probably  not  the  first.45  These  letters  are  typical  for  most  that 
follow,  telling  of  the  agricultural  wealth,  the  opportunities  for  cattle- 
raising,  the  liberty  of  body  and  soul,  the  high  wages,  also  the  hard 
work  but  sure  returns.  They  do  not  conceal  the  perils  of  the  sea, 
the  loss  of  life,  the  scarcity  of  spiritual  guidance,  comforts,  and 
pleasures,  but  all  these  drawbacks  fade  away  in  the  presence  of  the 
heroic  pioneer  spirit,  the  colonial  optimism,  that  pervade  the  letters. 
The  example  of  one  successful  pioneer  has  greater  force  than  the 
discouragement  of  half-a-dozen  that  fall  by  the  wayside.  The  effect 
of  such  letters  was  not  fully  realized  until  the  great  waves  of  emi 
gration  set  in  during  the  early  thirties  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
Then  all  possible  causes  of  the  "emigration-fever"  were  searched 
into,  and  letters  were  discovered  to  be  a  disease-breeding  germ,  if  not 
the  responsible  bacillus.  Measures  were  at  once  taken  for  their 
capture  and  extermination,  letters  were  hunted  and  kidnapped,  the 
bearers  and  recipients  were  punished  if  they  refused  to  give  them 
up.  A  few  illustrations  of  governmental  action  will  suffice.  In 
1737  Hans  Georg  Striker  wrote  a  report  on  Carolina  for  Lieutenant 
Rubi  in  Thun ;  this  letter  was  ordered  to  be  seized  and  laid  before 
the  government  of  Bern.46  In  1742  Peter  Stoker's  letters  from 
Carolina  were  demanded  of  him.  In  the  same  year  a  letter  from 
Carolina  addressed  to  Daniel  Kissling  of  Wattenwyl  was  ordered 
to  be  surrendered  by  the  Ratsherren  of  Bern.  On  March  4,  1744, 
the  police  of  Bern  were  instructed  to  prevent  the  luring  of  emi 
grants  by  means  of  letters ;  it  was  the  same  day  on  which  Bern  asked 
Basel  to  take  Peter  Inabnit  prisoner.  A  fine  of  thirty  pounds  was 
to  be  inflicted  on  anyone  who  would  not  surrender  such  a  letter 
without  delay.  On  April  29,  1752,  letters  from  Pennsylvania  were 
ordered  to  be  opened  and  copied.  Anything  unfavorable  to  the 

44  Cf.  "Copia  Underschiedlicher  Brieffen  auss  Nord  Carolina"  (1711),  included 
in  the  article:    "The  Graffenried  Manuscripts,"  German  American  Annals,  n.  s., 
vol.  XI.,  nos.  5,  6,  September-December,  1913.     The  letters  are  here  printed 
in  full. 

45  The  earliest  Swiss  settlers  in  America  were  probably  some  who  had  left 
their  homes  in  the  seventeenth  century  for  the  Palatinate,  and  subsequently 
joined  groups  of  Palatines  emigrating  to  America.     From  such,  letters  may  have 
been  received  in  Switzerland  before  1711. 

46  Bern,  RM.,  CLIII.  40-443. 
3 


LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN  THE 

colonies  should  be  published  in  the  next  issue  of  the  annual  calendar 
(Der  Hinkende  Bote).47  The  policy  was  widespread  of  suppressing 
the  favorable  passages  of  letters  and  publishing  whatever  was 
damaging.  Thus  one  of  the  most  critical,  in  parts  vituperative, 
epistles,48  one  written  by  a  disappointed  woman,  Esther  Werndtlin, 
the  widow  of  Pastor  Gottschi  (who  died  shortly  after  arriving  in 
Philadelphia),  was  printed  and  widely  circulated  by  Zurich  and 
Basel.49  Basel  ordered  (April  2,  1738)  that  copies  be  sent  to  all 
the  country  districts,  to  the  preachers  in  every  parish,  and  be  made 
known  to  every  subject  desirous  of  emigrating  to  Pennsylvania. 
The  number  of  letters  with  tidings  of  fortunate  experiences  in 
America  was  undoubtedly  very  much  greater,  judging  by  the  mass 
of  letters  contained  in  the  state-archive  of  Basel.  Most  of  these 
unquestionably  were  confiscated  letters,50  held  in  the  archives  to 
prevent  their  circulation.  It  is  not  surprising,  therefore,  that  Peter 
Huber  (the  country-folk  of  the  Bernese  Oberland  were  noted  for 
their  cleverness)  carried  letters  in  the  false  bottom  of  a  drinking- 
vessel,  specially  constructed  for  the  purpose  of  concealing  written 
messages. 

The  policy  of  suppressing  favorable  news  was  also  forced  upon 
the  newspapers.  On  October  8,  1736,  the  Council  of  Bern  gave 
the  following  order:  "Since  the  Avis-Bldttlin  [Intelligencer]  has 
recently  brought  an  article  on  Carolina,  the  editor  is  directed  in 
the  future  not  to  publish  any  more  reports  on  Carolina  and  the 
condition  of  the  emigrants  there.  In  any  case  nothing  favorable 
about  them  shall  be  printed."  51  On  February  6,  1738,  the  Avis- 
blatter  of  Bern  and  Lausanne  are  commanded  not  to  publish  any  of 
the  reports  coming  from  the  neighboring  Neuchatel,  in  view  of  the 
propaganda  coming  from  there.52 

A  further  danger  existed  in  the  numerous  books  and  pamphlets 
descriptive  of  the  American  colonies.  The  earliest  actually  received 
encouragement  from  Swiss  governments,  because  information  was 
desired.  Thus  Kocherthal's  report,  and  Ochs's  Amerikanischer 
Wegweiser  (1711)  were  welcomed,  and  the  latter  rewarded.  But 

47  See  Guide,  pp.  46-49,  etc. 

48  This  letter  dated  Philadelphia,  November  24,  1736,  is  reprinted  among  the 
documents  accompanying  this  article,  see  Documents,  C,  I.     Some  of  the  letters 
published  in  the  Hinkende  Bate  of  Bern,  have  also  been  included,  see  Documents, 
C,  2. 

49  Cf.  Guide,  pp.  30,  103,  etc. 

80  A  number  of  these  appear  in  print  for  the  first  time  among  the  accompanying 
Documents,  see  B,  1-6. 

51  Bern,  RM.,  CLII.  224. 

52  Ibid.,  CLVII.  122. 


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though  at  that  time  emigration  was  not  feared,  even  these  did  not 
fail  to  arouse  a  protest,  as  in  the  booklet:  Das  verlangte  und  nicht 
erlangte  Canaan  bei  den  Lust-Grdbern  .  .  .  absonderlich  dem  .  .  . 
Kocherthalerischen  Bericht  wohlbeddchtig  entgegen  gesetzt  (1711). 
Later  it  became  the  general  practice  to  reply  to  every  book  that  gave 
a  favorable  account  and  gained  a  circulation.  Thus  the  eulogistic 
account  of  Carolina  published  in  1734:  Der  nunmehro  in  der  Neuen 
Welt  vergniigt  und  ohne  Heim-Wehe  lebende  Schweitzer,  provoked 
the  equally  curious  book:  Neue  Nachricht  alter  und  neuer  Merk- 
wilrdigkeiten,  enthaltend  ein  vertrautes  Gesprdch  und  sicker e  Brief e 
von  der  Landschafft  Carolina  und  ubrigen  Englischen  Pflanz-Stddten 
in  Amerika  (1734).  The  latter  was  in  effect  a  denial  of  the  one  that 
went  before,  and  was  widely  circulated  by  the  governments  to 
counteract  the  influence  of  its  predecessor.  Another  booklet 
adopting  the  catching  dialogue  form  of  the  Neue  Nachricht  and 
equally  impressive  in  its  warnings  against  the  American  colonies, 
was  Der  Hinckende  Bolt  von  Carolina,  oder  Ludwig  Weber s  von 
Wallissellen  Beschreibung  seiner  Reise  von  Zurich  gen  Rotterdam 
(1735),  suggested  by  the  unfortunate  experiences  of  Pastor 
Gottschi's  group  of  emigrants  from  Zurich.  The  Neu-Gefundenes 
Eden  (1737)  was  followed  in  the  same  year  by  Christholds  Gedankenr 
bey  Anlasz  der  Bewegtmg,  welche  die  bekannte  Beschreibung  von 
Carolina,  in  Amerika,  in  unserm  Land  verursacht.  In  this  a  King 
dom  is  named  superior  to  the  New  Eden,  toward  which  there  is  a 
beautiful  voyage  without  sea-sickness,  where  there  is  eternal  peace 
instead  of  wars,  and  where  there  is  a  great  and  just  king,  better 
than  any  ruler  on  this  earth — and  the  reader  is  cautioned  not  to 
lose  this  Kingdom,  which  he  might  do  by  yielding  to  the  seductions 
of  the  New  Eden.53 

The  large  amount  of  attention  given  to  emigration,  and  the  severe 
restrictive  measures  adopted  by  the  Swiss  governments  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  indicate  that  they  were  not  contending  for  a 
mere  abstract  principle,  but  were  dominated  by  the  fear  of  an  ever- 
present  danger.  It  was  not  to  them  a  question  of  losing  a  few 
hundred  people  annually,  but  of  depopulation  of  whole  country  dis 
tricts,  as  was  threatening  in  the  case  of  Eglisau  in  the  canton  of 
Zurich,  or  Oberhasli  in  the  highlands  of  Bern.  Had  this  panic  fear 
sufficient  foundation  in  fact?  This  question  is  difficult  to  answer, 
owing  to  the  lack  of  accurate  statistics.  In  the  decade  from  1753 
to  1763,  which  was  a  period  of  only  moderate  emigration,  about 

53  For  a  list  of  books  and  pamphlets  belonging  to  this  eighteenth-century 
emigration  period,  with  full  titles,  see  Guide,  pp.  29-31,  etc. 


24  LISTS  OF  SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

10,000  persons  left  the  canton  of  Bern,  4000  of  whom  were  men 
entering  foreign  military  service,  and  6000  men  and  women  emi 
grating  to  other  countries.54  The  loss  of  1000  persons  annually  was 
at  least  appreciable.  The  fact  also,  that  recruiting  in  foreign  regi 
ments  was  constantly  draining  the  country  of  men,  undoubtedly 
made  the  governments  more  eager  to  stop  the  leakage  caused  by 
emigration. 

The  only  accurate  statistics  which  the  writer  was  able  to  find  in 
the  Swiss  archives,  bearing  on  the  question  of  the  number  of  Swiss 
who  came  to  the  American  colonies  in  the  eighteenth  century,  was  a 
carefully  compiled  list  of  emigrants  from  the  canton  of  Zurich  dur 
ing  the  years  1734-1 744. 55  The  list  furnishes  names,  with  dates, 
home  districts  and  destinations,  and  claims  to  be  complete.  The 
total  number  it  records  is  2300.  This  one  reliable  source  furnishes 
a  reasonable  basis  for  an  estimate  of  the  total  emigration  to  America 
in  the  eighteenth  century.  If  there  were  2300  names  of  recorded 
emigrants  from  the  canton  of  Zurich,  we  must  add  about  two  hun 
dred  more  for  secret  migration  (those  leaving  without  permission) ; 
this  would  give  Zurich  2500.  Since  the  canton  of  Bern  was  more 
populous,  and  emigration  very  prevalent,  we  may  assign  to  Bern  the 
number  3000.  Basel  in  proportion  to  her  population  might  be 
given  1500.  Other  cantons  whose  archives  contain  most  evidences 
of  emigration  in  the  eighteenth  century  are:  Aargau,  Schaffhausen, 
Graubiinden,  and  Solothurn.  Together  they  probably  equalled 
Zurich  in  population,  therefore  the  number  2500  would  fairly 
represent  their  emigration.  The  remaining  cantons,  mostly 
Catholic,  did  not  have  as  large  an  emigration  in  the  eighteenth  cen 
tury,  if  we  can  trust  the  fact  that  very  few  records  of  emigration 
from  those  quarters  appear.  The  number  2500  would  perhaps  more 
than  do  them  justice,  though  the  population  represented  is  more 
than  three  times  that  of  Zurich.  This  would  give  a  total  of  12,000 
emigrants  for  all  of  the  Swiss  cantons  during  the  period  1734-1744. 
Now,  these  eleven  years  represent  the  high  tide  of  Swiss  emigration 
to  the  American  colonies.  It  is  not  likely  that  the  total  emigration 
for  the  eighteenth  century  was  more  than  twice  this  figure,  judging 
by  the  records  in  the  archives.  It  is  the  writer's  opinion,  therefore, 
that  the  emigration  from  Switzerland  to  the  American  colonies  in 
the  eighteenth  century  amounted  to  something  like  25,000  persons, 

64  Cf.  Dr.  E.  Lerch,  Die  Bernische  Auswanderung  nach  Amerika  im  18.  Jahr- 
hundert,  p.  31. 

55  Staatsarchiv,  Zurich,  A.  174.  "  Verzeichnisse  der  Ausgewanderten  nach 
Carolina  und  Pennsylvanien  1734-1744."  See  Guide,  p.  14.  This  is  the  list 
printed  below,  and  here  published  for  the  first  time. 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       25 

though  the  discovery  of  additional  data  might  change  this  estimate 
to  a  figure  above  or  below  the  one  assumed. 

Numerical  estimates  of  eighteenth-century  emigration  appear 
strangely  diminutive  when  compared  with  the  statistics  of  the  nine 
teenth  century.  The  United  States  reports,  running  back  to  1820, 
show  a  total  Swiss  immigration  up  to  1910  of  over  250,000.  A 
strong  current  set  in  about  1816,  during  a  period  of  economic 
depression  (das  Hunger j  ahr) .  The  emigration  from  Switzerland 
fluctuated  in  the  nineteenth  century.  From  hundreds  annually  it 
rose  to  over  1500  in  1828,  dropped,  and  rose  again  to  about  1400  in 
1834;  starting  again  strongly  in  1852  with  nearly  3000,  it  rose  to 
8000  in  1854,  dropped  to  4500  in  1855,  and  much  lower  in  succeeding 
years,  until  the  high-water  mark  came  in  the  eighties,  beginning  with 
over  6000  in  1880,  and  reaching  the  crest  in  1883  with  12,751. 
From  1880  to  1886,  over  61,000  Swiss  arrived  in  the  United  States. 
Recently  the  average  has  been  about  3000  annually.  The  embargo 
upon  emigration  was  removed  by  the  Swiss  cantons  in  the  nine 
teenth  century.  Periodic  conditions  of  overpopulation,  failure  of 
crops,  and  hard  times,  recurring  in  certain  districts,  showed  plainly 
that,  far  from  being  a  cause  of  fear,  emigration  might  prove  an  ad 
vantage  to  a  vigorous  people  increasing  rapidly,  yet  confined  within 
narrow  borders.  Complaints  from  seaport  towns  in  France,  Hol 
land,  and  Germany,  calling  attention  to  the  congregating  of  masses 
of  poor  people  waiting  to  embark,  and  subsequently  the  objections 
of  the  United  States  to  the  deportation  of  undesirable  classes, 
brought  about  a  regulation  of  emigration  from  Switzerland.  The 
policy  was  adopted,  neither  to  encourage  nor  to  discourage  emigra 
tion,  but  to  let  it  take  its  course,  and  to  protect  the  emigrant  against 
the  selfishness  of  speculators,  and  the  consequences  of  his  own 
ignorance.  The  business  of  transporting  the  emigrant  was  left  in 
the  hands  of  agencies,  who  were  required  to  secure  a  license  and  to 
obey  the  laws.  In  1880  the  Federal  Emigration  Bureau  (Eid- 
genossisches  Auswanderungsamt}  was  established  at  Bern  to  control 
the  licensed  agencies,  to  enforce  justice  and  provide  helpful  in 
formation.  This  represents  the  modern  solution  of  a  problem  so 
exasperating  to  the  cantonal  governments  of  the  eighteenth  century. 


26  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 


LIST  OF  EMIGRANTS  TO   CAROLINA  AND 
PENNSYLVANIA,   1734-1744 

No.  i.  LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS,  WHO  BETWEEN  1734  AND  1744 
LEFT  THE  TERRITORY  OF  ZURICH,  IN  ORDER  TO  TRAVEL  TO 
AMERICA 

LAKE-DISTRICT 

Stafan o 

Humbrachtikon I 

Manedorf o 

Uetikon o 

Meilan 12 

Herrliberg 24 

Ehrlibach o 

Kiissnacht 1 6 

Zumikon o 

Richtenschweil 23 

Wadenschweil 7 

Schonenberg o 

Horgen 3 

Hirtzel o 

Dallweil o 

Langnau o 

Kilchberg o 

Riischlikon o 

Wollishofen o 

Altstatten 2 

Schlieren 41 

Sax o 

Sennwald o 

Salez o 

FREY 

I  Kappel 15 

Hausen 1 6 

Knonau 24 

Maschwanden 6 

Augst o 

Rifferschweil 24 

Metmenstetten 16 

^'Affholteren 52 

Hedingen 7 

'  Ottenbach 7 

O.  Bonstatten 19 

Stallikon o 

Birmenstorf 15 

Urdorf 2 

tJtikon o 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES      27 

STEIN 

Stein o 

Stammheim o 

Andelfingen 49 

Ossingen o 

Dagerlen 6 1 

Driillikon 7 

Lauffen o 

Benken o 

Martelen 36 

Feuerthalen o 

Dorfflingen o 

WlNTERTHUR 

Winterthur o 

Oberwinterthur 17 

Toss 15 

Seiizach 9 

Neftenbach 31 

Hettlingen 7 

Dorf I 

Henkhard 39 

Berg 15 

Flach 10 

Embrach 73 

Lufingen 4 

Rorbas 34 

Dattlikon 24 

Pfungen i 

Brutten .- 14 

Feltheim 2 

Wiilflingen 31 

Buch 7 

ELGG 

Elgg 47 

Elsau 22 

Wisendangen 32 

Seen 32 

Rikenbach o 

Dynhard 15 

Altikon 43 

Zell 44 

Turbenthal 2 

Schlatt o 

Wyla 9 

Wildberg .' 23 

Sternenberg 15 

WETZIKOM 

Gossau 9 

Griiningen o 

Hinweil 5 

Wetzikon 9 


28  LISTS  OF   SWISS  EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Wald o 

Barentschweil I 

Diirnten o 

Ruthi o 

Fischenthal o 

Egg o 

Bubikon o 

Bauma o 

Oetweil 4 

KYBURG 

'    Greiffensee 3 

Pfaffikon 10 

Hittnau 2 

Kyburg o 

Fehr-Altorff I 

'   Jlnau 44 

1  Russikon 4 

Weisslingen 12 

Lindau 23 

1  Wangen 4 

Schwertzenbach 8 

Diibendorff 6 

Fallanden 24 

Mur 35 

Uster 7 

Munch-Altorff o 

Volketschweil 18 

(j 

REGENSBERG 

..  Hongg o 

Weiningen o 

Regensperg o 

Dallikon 9 

f   Otelfingen 14 

Buchs 5 

Regensperg 10 

Niderhaslen 15 

k  Oberglatt 10 

3  Riimlang 24 

1  Kloten ii 

Basserstorf 69 

Affholteren 4 

Dietlikon 18 

i'» 

EGLISAU 

Weningen 32 

IkSchofflistorf 22 

Steinmaur 116 

I  Bachs 56 

1  Stadel 138 

2  Biilach ; in 

Eglisau 24 

~  Glattfelden 53 

'8 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES      29 

Wyl ' 26 

Rafz 66 

i  Weyach 36 

DEPENDENCY 
Wallisellen .  .  61 


Total 2,310! 

NO.  2.      LIST  OF  THOSE   FAMILIES  AND   PERSONS  WHO,  FROM   I734~ 
1744,    LEFT    THE    PARISH    AFFHOLTEREN    AT    MT.    ALBIS    FOR 

(A)  CAROLINA,  (B)  PENNSYLVANIA 

(A)  LEFT  FOR  CAROLINA 

*734  (fl)  Family.     Hans  Grob  with  his  wife  Cathrj   Ruestin,  a  son  and  two 

daughters. 
J739  (&)   Elsbeth  Muller,  grown-up  daughter  of  Jacob  Miiller,  deceased. 

(B)  LEFT  FOR  PENNSYLVANIA 

1736  Two  grown-up  help-mates.     Hans  Jacob  Dups,  Heiri's  (man),  and  Rudolff 

Haug  ,  Uli's  (man).     N.B.     Their  first  trip. 
J743   (a)  Families. 

1.  Caspar  Schnebelj  Ottlis  with  his  wife  Verena  Dups  and  four  little 

children. 

2.  Conrad  Wyss,  cooper,  with  his  wife  Barbara  Dups  and  four  young 

children. 

3.  Felix  Wyss,  carpenter,  with  his  wife  Anna  Huber  and  five  little 

children. 

4.  Johannes  Epprecht  with  his  wife  Verena  Walder  and  one  little  child. 

5.  Conrad  Naff  with  his  three  sons. 

6.  Hans  Heinrich  Hurter  with  his  wife  Verena  Huber  and  one  young 

child. 
(&)   Grown-up  Help-mates. 

1.  Hans  Jacob  Dups,  Heiri's. 

2.  Rudolff  Haug,  Uli's.     N.B.     Their  second  trip. 

3.  Hans  Dups,  the  above  Hans  Jacob's  brother. 

4.  Leonhard  Schnebelj,  Heiri  Schnebelj 's,  the  inn-keeper's  (man). 

5.  Heirj  Epprecht,  Joose's  (man). 

6.  Hans  Heinrich  Epprecht,  Jacob's  (man). 

7.  Heinrich  Suter,  the  deceased  Hans'  (man). 

8.  His  brother  Hans  Suter. 

9.  Hans  Jacob  Suter,  the  deceased  Rudi's  (man). 

10.  Hans  Schnebelj,  Riietschj  Heiri's  (man). 

11.  Heinrich  Rudolff,  the  deceased  Jacob's  (man). 

12.  Hans  Jacob  Scharer,  Kramer's  (man). 
(c)    Boys  under  age. 

1.  Leonhard  Haug,  Farber's. 

2.  Conrad  Epprecht,  Joose's. 

3.  Rudolff  Kleiner. 

1  The  total  of  the  figures  given  is  2,262,  not  2,310.  The  discrepancy  may  be 
accounted  for  by  the  omission  or  loss  of  the  names  of  one  or  more  parishes  in  the 
tabulation. 


30  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

(d)  Grown-up  daughters. 

1.  Barbara  Haug,  Uli's. 

2.  Ana  Schnebelj,  Ruetschj  Heiri's. 

Total  52  souls. 
Affholteren  at  Mt.  Albis,  Attested  by 

April  22,  1744.  HANS  ULRICH  WYSS,  p.l. 

(i.e.,  pastor  loci,  i.e.,  pastor  in  the  parish.) 

No.  3.  THE  FOLLOWING  PERSONS  FROM  THE  PARISH  AFFHOLTEREN 
AT  HONGG  HAVE,  AS  FAR  AS  IS  KNOWN,  WITHDRAWN  WITHIN  A 
FEW  YEARS,  AND  GONE  TO  PENNSYLVANIA  OR  CAROLINA 

1.  Jacob  Matthysen's  (in  Unter-Affholteren)  daughter,  aged  28,  withdrew  six 

years  ago. 

2.  Caspar  Merkj  (in  Ober- Affholteren),  smith  and  drummer,  aged  29,  with 

3.  His  wife:  Anna  Dietschj,  of  the  same  age,  left  on  account  of  debts.     1743. 

4.  Johannes  dingier,  aged  29,  left  the  same  place,  without  the  knowledge  even 

of  his  parents,  leaving  behind  wife  and  child,  in  the  aforesaid  year  1743. 

No.  4.     FROM  THE  PARISH  ALTIKON  THERE  JOURNEYED  TO 
CAROLINA,  BETWEEN  1734-1744 

FROM  ALTIKON 

1734-  i 

Rudolff  Meyer,     aged  30  years  and  1  , ,      .    . 
.         TT  '  f  Married  couple. 

Anna  Hasentraz,  28  J 

Children: 

Magdalena,  aged  4  years. 
Maria,  "      I  year. 

1735-  2 
Rudolph  Baumer,  Felix  Baumer's  son,  aged  26  years. 

3 
Jacob  Ammann,  Jacob  Ammann's  son,  aged  24  years. 

4 

Christoph  Miiller,  aged  30  years  and  1  , ,      .    . 

„    ,    ,  L,  r  Married  couple. 

Barbel  Baumer,  28  J 

1743-     5 

Jacob  Kreysz,        aged  46  years  and 
Anna  Bachmann,      "     42      " 

Children: 

Hans  Ulrich,  aged  18  years. 
Hans  Jacob,      "      16      " 
Hans  Felix,  8 

Anna,  "       6      " 

Total  from  Altikon:  14  Persons. 

FROM  DORLIKON 

1738.     i 

Hansz  Niissli,  Oeler,  aged  42  years  and  1   , ,      .    . 
.        ,.      ,.  r  Married  couple. 

Angelica  Meyer,  37 

Children: 
Elisabeth,  aged  14  years. 


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Barbara,  aged  12  yeaes. 

Angelica,  10 

Verena,  7 

Anna,  5 

Heinrich,  3 

2 

Conrad  Easier,  aged  33  years  and 
Anna  Baumer,  35 

Child: 
Conrad,  aged  7  years. 

3 

Christoph  Weydmann,  aged  37  years  and  \  Marr[ed          le 
Elsbeth  Schmid,  34 

Children: 

Heinrich,          aged  1 1  years. 
Ulrich,  "        6      " 

Hans  Caspar,  ^  year. 

1743-     4 

Hans  Ulrich  Miiller,  aged  41  years  and  1   , 
Verena  Bolsterlj,  42 

Children: 

Dorothea,       aged  n  years. 
Anna,  4 

Hans  Ulrich,      "        I  year. 

.  5 

Rudolph  Epprecht,  aged  44  years  and 
Anna  Griigis,  46 

Children: 

Jacob,        aged  21  years. 
Rudolph,       "     1 8      " 
Anna,  "     14      " 

Margreth,  "  12  " 
Elisabeth,  "  8  " 
Verena,  5 

Total  from  Dorlikon:  29  Persons. 
Altikon,  April  15,  1744.  CASPAR  ULRICH,  Minister. 

No.  5.     FROM  ALLTSTATTEN  THERE  WENT  AWAY  ON  THE  23.  JULY, 
1743,  WITH  THE  PURPOSE  OF  GOING  TO  PENNSYLVANIA 

Margrethe  Hindermann's  two  sisters,  of  the  same  name,  the  one  39,  the  other 
36  years  old. 

Otherwise  no  one. 

Which  report  herewith,  because  of  no  better  opportunity  known,  is  sent  to 
accompany  the  Circular, — while  commending  himself  most  respectfully  to  His 
Grace,  the  Dean,  by 

JOH.  CASPAR  HESS,  p.l. 

From  WOLL.ISHOFFEN  none,  God  be  praised,  have  gone  away.  God  grant, 
that  also  in  the  future  no  one's  mouth  will  water  for  this  country. 

From  KILCHBERG  no  one  has  gone  away,  "principiis  obstandum  fuisset." 
From  RUSCHLIKON  also  no  one  has  left.     As  far  as  I  know,  the  thought 
never  entered  anyone's  mind  to  go  away  from  here. 


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No.  6.    WITH  THE  INTENTION  OF  GOING  TO  CAROLINA  THERE  WENT 

AWAY  FROM   THE   PARISH   ANDELFINGEN 

1734,  the  i.  November.     Anna  Bretscher,  from  Atlikon,  unmarried,  aged  26. 
But  the  report  came  later  that  this  disorderly  person  got  to  Piedmont 
and  died  there. 
1738,  the  beginning  of  September.     Adam  Angst,  tailor,  from  Niderwyl,  aged  36. 

His  wife  Barbara  Rass,  aged  35.     Child:  Elisabetha,  aged  2^. 
Hans  Jacob  Schaub,  from  Niderwyl,  unmarried,  aged  26. 
His  sister  Anna,  unmarried,  aged  21. 
Anna  Moser,  from  Ohrlingen,  unmarried,  aged  26^. 
Jacob  Bucher,  from  Alten,  who  left  his  wife,  aged  58. 
His  son  with  him,  Hans  Conrad,  aged  26. 
Hans  Jacob  Ullman,  from  Altlicken,  aged  32. 
His  betrothed  Anna  Landolt  from  Kl.  Andelfingen,  aged  29. 
These,  however,  did  not  get  farther  than  Basel,  and  from  there  to  the 
district  of  Durlach,  where  they  were  married.     He  is  said  to  be  in  service 
there  still,  but  the  woman  returned  to  her  parents  pregnant,  in  December 
1741,  where  she  gave  birth  to  a  child  that  died,  subsequently  she  went 
into  service  again. 
*743    Went  away  Tuesday  after  Witsuntide. 

Heinrich  Schaub  from  Niderwyl,  aged  51. 
His  wife  Anna  Barbara  Bertschinger,  aged  33^. 
Children  by  the  first  marriage:  Anna,  aged  22 

Hans  Ulrich,       "     20 
Adam,  "     18^ 

Jacob,  "     1 6 

Johannes,  10 

Hans  Conrad,     "       8 

Child  by  the  second  marriage:    Susanna,  "       2^4 

There  also  left  at  that  time: 

Heinrich  Angst  from  Niderwyl,  unmarried,   I  Both    without    a    pass 
aged  27^/2.  f     and  certificate  from 

His  sister  Elsbeth,  unmarried,  aged  26.  pastor. 

1743    Anna  Hagenbuch,  from  the  same  place,        1 

unmarried,  aged  27.  I  Both  of  these  left  with- 

Her  brother,  Hans  Jacob,  aged  18,  who  out  pass  or  certificate. 

has  not  yet  received  the  communion.        J 
the  13.  June.     Hans  Ullmann,  from  Atlikon,  aged  41^2. 
His  wife  Magdalena  Hirt,  aged  30^. 
His  child  by  first  marriage  Johannes,  aged  3^. 

He  died  in  London,  and  according  to  a  report  received  a  week  ago,  which 
sounds  lamentable,  she  is  still  there  with  the  step-child  in  a  despicable 
condition  of  poverty.  The  letter  has  come  through  Rieslimann  of 
Winterthur. 

the  6.  July.     Hans  Conrad  Schaub  of  Niderwyl,  aged  29^. 
His  wife  Anna  Frey,  aged  32)^. 

Children:  Hans  Conrad,  aged  3^,  Hans  Jacob,  aged  2%. 
Also  with  him  his  sister  Ursula,  aged  23,  and  brother  Heinrich,  aged  21 

(unmarried). 

the  I.  April.     Jacob  Meisterhans,  mason,  from  Andelfingen,  aged  51. 
His  wife  Verena  Bernhardt,  aged  41. 
Children:  Hans  Conrad,       aged  12 %. 
Anna  Elsabetha,  9^2- 

Hans  Jacob,  "       4^. 


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1743    With  him  there  left  also,  without  desiring  from  me  a  certificate: 
Hans  Jacob  Islicker,  from  Klein-Andelfingen,  aged  50. 
His  wife  Anna  Himmel,  aged  58. 

Their  illegitimate  daughter  Anna  Hegin  from  Cappel,  unmarried,  aged  25^. 
Jacob  Sigg,  also  from  Kl.  Andelf.,  aged  46. 
His  wife  Regula  Eigenheer,  aged  34. 
Children:  Margaretha,  aged  8*4;   Hans  Jacob,  aged  6. 
Heinrich  Susstrunk,  shoemaker  from  Humlicken,  aged  29^. 
His  wife  Ursula  lily,  aged  25. 
Child:  Hans  Ulrich,  8  months. 
He  also  took  with  him  his  sister  Barbara,  aged  17^2,  who  has  not  yet 

received  the  communion. 
Testified  from  Andelfingen,  April  10,  1744.          JOH.  SCHOOP,  Minister. 

No.  7.    LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  SINCE  THE  YEAR  1734  JOUR 
NEYED  FROM  THE  PARISH  BACKS  TO  THE  NEW  WORLD 

Junghans  Maag,  born  July  15,  1703,  secretly  left  his  wife  and  child. 

Junghans  Meyer,  son  of  Jacob  Meyer,  deceased,  unmarried,  born  March  28, 

1706. 

f  Heinrich  Keller,  born  January  2,  1684. 
-I  Margeth  Scheur  Mejer,  his  wife,  born  February  6,  1687. 
[  Margeth,  his  child,  born  June  12,  1729. 

Hans  Jacob  Schiiz,  the  deceased  Hans  Jacob  Schiiz's  son,  unmarried,  born 
April  17,  1718. 

Rudolff  Schiiz,  Rudolff  Schiiz's  legitimate  son,  unmarried,  born  July  17,  1715. 
f  Felix  Kunz,  born  October  13,  1695. 
[  Anna  Dutweiler,  his  wife,  born  November  6,  1681. 

{Vrena  Piaster,  wife  of  the  deceased  Schiiz,  born  September  24,  1682. 
Felix,  son,  born  May  21,  1716,  unmarried. 
Rudolff,  son,  born  April  23,  1719,  unmarried. 
f  Hans,  a  brother,  born  October  22,  1713. 
-|  Vrena  Bleiiler,  his  wife,  born  September  3,  1713. 
I  Hans  Caspar,  her  son,  born  February  8,  1739. 
Klihans  Kunz,  Heinrich  Kunz's  (the  rope-maker's)  legitimate  son,  unmarried, 

born  August  26,  1716. 

Jacob  Pfister,  Klihansen's  legitimate  son,  unmarried,  born  September  27,  1716. 
f  Klihans  Vrener,  born  May  21,  1714. 
•<  Regula  Bram,  his  wife,  born  December  19,  1699. 
[  Caspar  Vrener,  his  brother,  unmarried,  born  October  6,  1720. 
Barbara  Kunz,  Hans  Kunz's  legitimate  daughter,  born  March  9,  1721,  un 
married. 

Hans  Kunz,  her  brother,  unmarried,  born  September  14,  1730. 
Jacob  Bucher,  born  April  10,  1696. 
Barbara  Albrecht,  his  wife,  born  October  12,  1695. 

Children: 

Jacob,  born  September  I,  1725. 
.  Heinrich,  born  May  17,  1728. 
Jacob  Schiiz,  born  April  i,  1697. 
Margeth  Huber,  his  wife,  born  August  10,  1706. 

Children: 

Anna,  born  May  28,  1730. 
Elsbeth,  born  August  31,  1732. 
Heinrich,  born  February  13,  1725. 
Hans  Heinrich,  born  May  26,  1735. 
Barbara,  born  October  9,  1740. 


34  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Magdalena,  Felix  Majer's  legitimate  daughter,  unmarried,  born  July  8,  1714. 
f  Jacob  Mejer,  born  August  12,  1703. 
J  Susanna  Hug,  his  wife,  born  March  7,  1697. 

Her  child: 

[  Vrena,  born  March  22,  1728. 
Hans  Jacob  Weidmann,  Felix's  legitimate  son,  unmarried,  born  October  22, 

1720. 

Hans  Weidmann,  born  October  8,  1702. 
Anna  Surber,  his  wife,  born  December  15,  1700. 

Children: 

Anna,  born  May  21,  1732. 
Anna,  born  August  29,  1734. 
Rudolff,  born  September  12,  1737. 
-  Hans  Bernhardt,  born  May  14,  1699. 
Vrena  Schiiz,  his  wife,  born  October  26,  1704. 

Children: 

Cleophea,  born  December  14,  1728. 
Heinrich,  born  September  14,  1730. 
Hans  Heinrich,  born  February  20,  1735. 
Hans,  born  January  i,  1738. 
Anna,  born  August  16,  1740. 

{"  Anna,  born  July  ^,  1707. 
TT  .     .  .  Y,   '  „        all  unmarried,  the  deceased  Hans  Weid- 

Hemnch,  born  February  2,  1718.   •<  ,      .  .,  , 

,„  mann  s  children. 

Johannes,  born  May  4,  1724. 

/-Felix  Mejer,  born  January  i,  1705. 

I  Barbara  Hollenweiger,  his  wife,  born  September  25,  1698. 

Child: 
[  Regula,  born  May  19,  1737. 

Total:  56  Persons. 

Attested  from  the  record-book  of  baptisms,  March  25,  1744. 

BY  JOHANN  CASPAR  SCHWEYZER,  Minister  at  Backs. 

No.  8.     FROM  THE  PARISH  BARETSCHWEIL  IN  1742 

Hans  Heinrich  Meyer  from  the  Hinderberg  went  to  Carolina,  leaving  his 
wife  behind  somewhere  about  Lake  Zurich,  got  possession  of  about  50  florins  and 
absconded.  He  was  baptized  in  February  1697. 

Attested, 

Baretschweil,  April  18,  1744.  PASTOR  SCHMID. 

No.  9.  LIST  OF  THOSE  PITIABLE  PERSONS,  WHO  CONTRARY  TO 
FAITHFUL  WARNINGS  AND  ADMONITIONS  OBSTINATELY  WENT 
AWAY  FROM  THE  PARISH  BASSERSTORFF,  with  the  intention 
of  seeking  their  fortunes  in  Carolina  or  Pennsylvania. 

1734 

1.  Heinrich  Brunner,  son  of  Jacob,  deceased,  called  the  trumpeter  of  Basserstorff, 

born  May  3,  1716. 

2.  Susanna  Keller,  illegitimate  daughter  of  Caspar  Keller,  deceased,  born  May 

25,  I7I5- 

3.  Heinrich  Diibendorffer,  called  Christen  Hugen,  born  October  3,  1695. 
Barbara  Meyer,  his  wife,  born  in  Wallisellen. 

Children: 


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Rudolff,  born  April  22,  1726. 
Anna,  born  February  18,  1731. 
Barbara,  born  April  25,  1734. 

4.  Hans  Jacob  Diibendorffer,  called  Krebser,  born  April  12,  1696. 
His  wife  Magdalena  Krebser  from  Wallisellen. 

5.  Hans  Heinrich  Enderli,  called  Schorulis,  born  July  28,  1700. 
His  wife:  Anna  Keller  from  Oberembrach. 

Children: 

Heinrich,  born  August  12,  1725. 
Regula,  born  July  18,  1728. 

6.  Heinrich  Diibendorffer,  the  mason's  son,  born  May  8,  1698. 
His  wife:  Verena  Widmer  from  Ottikon. 

Child: 
Felix,  born  November  17,  1733. 

7.  Hans  Diibendorffer,  called  Kiieffer,  the  tailor's  son,  born  February  2,  1701. 
His  wife,  Lisabeth  Keller  from  the  parish  Embrach. 

Children: 

Rudolff,  born  January  19,  1727. 
Hans  Georg,  born  January  23,  1729. 
Elsbeth,  born  December  25,  1731. 
Katharina,  born  June  27,  1733. 

8.  Kilian  Diibendorffer,  called  Krebser,  born  February  19,  1704. 
His  wife,  Verena  Krebser  from  Wallisellen. 

Children: 

Abraham,  born  December  5,  1728. 
Anna,  born  March  22,  1733. 

9.  Heinrich  Hug,  wainwright,  a  widower,  born  September  27,  1668.     Died  on 

the  ship  to  Pennsylvania. 

10.  Christophel  Leimbacher  from  Oberwil,  Heinrich's  son,  born  June  25,  1713. 

11.  Felix  Leimbacher  from  Oberwil,  born  September  14,  1684. 
His  wife:  Anna  Meyer,  born  October  12,  1689. 

Children: 

Felix,  born  March  15,  1711,  is  in  the  Dutch  Service. 
Hans  Heinrich,  born  July  6,  1717,  with  his  parents. 
Anna,  born  October  30,  1725. 
Lisabeth,  born  April  II,  1728. 
Barbel,  born  February  18,  1731. 

12.  Hans  Heinrich2  Brunner,  son  of  the  deceased  Heinrich,  tailor,   unmarried, 

born  December  19,  1728. 
2  Heinrich  is  written  above  the  name  Ulrich,  crossed  out. 

1743.     Left  Sunday,  May  5 

1.  Heinrich  Diibendorffer,  called  Krebser,  born  March  5,  1702. 
His  wife:  Anna  Wegmann  from  Tagelschwang,  born  1703. 
Married  December  19,  1728. 

2.  Hans  Jacob  Reutlinger,  Kaspar's  son,  unmarried,  born  July  30,  1719. 

3.  Salome  Brunner,  Hans  Brunner's  deceased  wife  (nee  Hursel),  called  Link's 

daughter,  born  June  n,  1724. 

4.  Heinrich  Leimbacher,  deceased  Jacob's  son  from  Oberwil,  unmarried,  born 

November  26,  1719. 

5.  Elsbeth  Vetter,   daughter  of  Jacob,   left  with  Hans  Jacob   Brunner  from 

.  Kloten,  since  the  parish  Kloten  objected  to  their  marriage.     Born  August 
8,  1717. 

6.  Jacob  Altorffer,   deceased   Kaspar's  son,   from   Birchwil,   unmarried,   born 

October  5,  1727. 


36  LISTS  OF  SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

7.  Leonard  Altorffer,  smith  from  Basserstorf,  born  August  10,  1700. 

His  wife,  Anna  Frener  from  Wangen,  born  May  17,  1706,  married  February 

5,  I73I- 

Children: 

Kaspar,  baptized,  January  18,  1739. 
Hans  Jacob,  July  15,  1742. 

8.  Susanna  Bachmann,  the  deceased  Jacob  Ringger's  widow,  from  Niirrenstorff. 
Born  August  20,  1707,  left  with  her  own  son,  Heinrich, 

Baptized  March  13,  1735,  and  three  sons  by  her  first  marriage. 
Born  by  Barbara  Morff  from  Effretikon. 
Hans  Jacob,  baptized  September  24,  1724. 
Hans  Caspar,  baptized  December  25,  1727. 
Jacob,  December  4,  1729. 

9.  Left  the  nth  of  May. 

Hans  Jacob  Leimbacher,  Hans  Heinrich's  son,  from  Oberwil,   unmarried, 
born  April  30,  1724. 

10.  Hans  Jacob  Brunner,  called  Trumpeter  of  Basserstorff,  born  September  22, 

1709. 

Anna  Meyer,  from  Embrach,  his  wife,  born  June  12,  1707. 
Left  the  15th  of  May. 

11.  Heinrich  Brunner,  son  of  Rudolff,  deceased,  from  the  Hub,  unmarried,  born 

January  9,  1718. 

12.  Jacob  Hess,  Caspar  Hess'  (from  Ettenhausen)  illegitimate  son,  lived  at  Bassers 

torff  with  his  mother  Anna  Hugg,  baptized  here  January  26,  1719. 

13.  Ulrich  Brunner,  tailor,  surviving  son  of  Kilian  Brunner  and  Verena  Altorffer, 

from  Basserstorff,  unmarried,  born  February  22,  1722. 

14.  Hans  Brunner,  cooper  from  Basserstorff,  born  May  18,  1690. 

His  wife:  Barbara  Redinger  from  Hongg.     Married  August  26,  1727. 

Children: 

Hans  Jacob,         baptized,  December  27,  1727. 
Hans  Ulrich,  "         June  14,  1730. 

David,  "         August        17,  1732. 

Abraham,  "         October      24,  1734. 

Felix,  December  13,  1739. 

Anna  Margreth,         "         October      22,  174-. 

15.  Left  July  4th. 

Felix  Bachmann  from  Oberwil,  born  December  18,  1701. 
His  wife:  Regula  Morff  from  Hakab,  born  May  10,  1711. 
Children  by  the  first  marriage  are: 
Anna  Hinen  from  Dietlikon. 
Rudolff,  born  December  21,  1732. 
Anna,  born  April  7,  1735. 
Attested, 

HANS  ULRICH  GESZNER,  Pastor  at  Basserstorf. 

No.  10.  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE  MAGISTERIAL  ORDER  RECEIVED, 
THE  MINISTER  OF  BANKEN  INFORMS  His  HONOR,  DEAN 
BRUNNER,  THAT  NO  ONE  HAS  LEFT  THE  PARISH  OF  BANKEN 
FROM  1734  UNTIL  NOW:  that  at  present,  however,  three  families 
have  the  wish  to  leave,  to  wit: 

1.  Johannes  Studer  with  three  children  and  his  wife. 

2.  Jacob  Meister,  locksmith,  with  his  wife. 

3.  Johannes  Meister,  the  glazier,  with  his  wife  and  three  children. 


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These,  however,  have  been  held  up  by  His  Honor,  the  Chief  Magistrate 
(Kreis-Obervogt)  in  Lauffen,  until  after  Easter,  and  as  a  result  will  probably 
have  to  remain. 

April  3,  1744.  Pastor  WUNDERLIJ  at  Banken. 

No.  1 1 .     FROM  THE  PARISH  BIRMENSTORFF  THE  FOLLOWING  HAVE 
GONE  TO  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA 

Lisabeth  Haffner,  the  deceased  Hans  Haffner's  daughter,  born  April  i,  1706,  left 

two  years  ago. 
Eva  Hedinger,  the  deceased  Hans  Hedinger's  daughter,  born  August  30,  1705, 

left  in  1738. 

Felix  Wintsch  from  Landicon,  born  October  7,  1724,  left  in  1743. 
Katharina  Wintsch,  his  sister,  born  April  14,  1726. 

Hans  Stierlin  from  Aesch  and  his  wife  Anna  Rasi,  together  with  the  4  children: 
Jacob  Stierlin,  born  October  21,  1715;   Hans  Stierlin,  born  January  26,  1718. 
Gregorious  Stierlin,  born  November  22,  1722;  and  Ursula  Stierlin,  born  February 

25,  1725- 
Hans  Gut  from  Aesch  and  his  wife  Elsbeth  Beerlj,  with  their  daughter  Mar- 

garetha  Gut,  born  December  24,  1714. 
Caspar  Hoffstatter,  born  October  i,  1713. 
Hans  Jacob  Meyer,  also  from  Aesch,  born  September  19,  1707. 
Total  15  Persons. 

No.  12.    LIST  OF  PERSONS  WHO  LEFT  THE  PARISH  BONNSTETEN  TO 
GO  TO  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA 

Withdrew  in  September  1738. 
Born: 

October      28,  1701.  Caspar  Toggweiler,  called  Schwab. 

December  10,  1709.  Anna  Huber,  his  wife. 

Their  children: 

February    12,  1730.  Barbara. 

June  24,  1731.  Margreth. 

July  21,  1737.  Hans  Heinrich. 

June  24,  1703.  Felix  Glatlj,  Chlyriidis. 

October        4,  1691.  Catharj  Huber,  his  wife. 

January        9,  1689.  Felix  Frey. 

September  23,  1688.  Barbara  Blikenstorffer,  his  wife. 

Their  children: 

September  13,  1718.  Jacob. 

March  6,  1725.  Hans  Heinrich. 

Also  the  following  unmarried  people. 

April  17,  1717.  Heinrich  Aeberlj,  son  of  Hans. 

July  26,  1696.  Heinrich  Glatlj,  son  of  the  purser,  deceased. 

April  22,  1714.  Hans  Jacob  Huber,  son  of  the  bailiff. 

August        1 6,  1711.  Heinrich  Glatlj,  son  of  Caspar  deceased. 

February    14,  1723.  Anna  Huber,  daughter  of  Marti  deceased. 

Withdrew  in  May  1743. 

August        19,  1716.     Cilian  Gilg.  1  TM.  •  •     ,.t. 

_  TT        .   ,     ..  r  TT        I  They  were  in  service  in  the 

December  17,  1720.     Hans  Aeberlj,  son  of  Hans  >       •,-.•.     c  is 

district  of  Knonau. 
deceased. 

Withdrew  April  I,  1744. 

December  18,  1714.     Regul  Gilg,  daughter  of  Chlyjoggen  deceased,  left  Knonau 
where  she  served. 


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No.  13.  THERE  HAVE  GONE  TO  CAROLINA  FROM  THE  PARISH 

BRUTTEN 

1.  1740.     Heinrich  Kaller,  born  1718,  April  20,  unmarried. 

2.  1743.     Felix  Gross,  born  March  24,  1715,  unmarried. 

Verena  Staffen,  born  April  4,  1718,  unmarried. 

Hans  Conrad  Gross,  born  April  6,  1721,  unmarried. 

Barbara  Staffen,  born  April  9,  1717,  unmarried. 

Lisabeth  Baltensberger,  born  August  20,  1720,  unmarried. 

Hans  Heinrich  Baltensberger,  born  August  18,  1715. 

His  wife,  Barbara  Sommer  from  Rtimikon,  born  in  the  parish  of  Elsauw 

February  17,  1711.     She  was  in  an  advanced  state  of  pregnancy  at 

her  departure. 

Finally  there  left  Rudolf  Gross,  born  September  26,  1716. 
His  wife  was  Barbara  Stadeli  from  Basserstorff,  born  August  9,  1703. 

The  children  are: 
Heinrich,  born  1732. 
Rudolf,  born  April  6,  1734. 
Lisabeth,  born  1738. 
Hans  Ulrich,  born  April  9,  1740. 

No.  14.     FROM  THE  PARISH  BUBIKON  THERE  WITHDREW  FOR 

CAROLINA 

1738.  Conrad  Zollinger  and  Lisabeth  Zollinger  with  eight  children,  got  as  far  as 
the  Markgrafenland  (S.W.  section  of  the  Black  Forest,  in  Baden), 
where  they  remained  for  two  years  on  fief-land.  The  father  died  and 
the  mother  returned  with  eight  children. 

Regula  is  married  in  the  city  of  Basel. 

Hans  Rudolf  is  in  service  in  Basel. 

Hans  Heinrich  is  also  serving  in  Basel. 

Hans  Rudolf  is  working  also  in  the  Basel-district. 

Hans  Caspar  died. 

Hans  Ereth  1 

A.  Barbara    [•  These  three  are  being  brought  up  in  our  parish. 

Hans  Jacob  J 

1743.  Hans  Hiirliman  and  Maria  Keller  with  three  young  children  got  to  Basel 
and  after  he  had  spent  all  his  money,  returned.  He  wishes  to  burden 
the  church  with  the  bringing  up  of  his  three  children: 

Maria,       born  September  30,  1736. 

Heinrich,     "     April  3,  1738. 

Elsbeth,       "     March         17,  1740. 

No.  15.     LIST  OF  PERSONS  WHO  FROM  THE  PARISH  BULACH  BETWEEN 
1734  AND  1744  JOURNEYED  TO  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA 

FROM  BULACH 
1734.     Hansz  Jacob  Kern,  the  deceased  sexton's  son,  unmarried. 

FROM  BACHENBULACH 
1734.     Abraham  Baninger,  carpenter. 

His  wife,  two  sons. 
1738.     Hansz  Maag. 

His  wife,  three  children. 


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1738.     Salomon  Mejer. 

His  wife. 

Hansz  Jacob  Maag,  Alexander's  son. 

His  wife,  three  children. 

Salomon  Mejer,  tailor. 

His  wife,  four  children. 

Heinrich  Zander. 

His  wife,  three  children. 
1743.     Jacob  Maag. 

His  wife,  two  children. 

Andreas  Maag. 

His  wife,  two  children. 

Total  from  Bachenbiilach  35  souls. 

THERE  WENT  FROM  ESCHENMOSEN 

J738-     Johanes  Steiner,  Caspar  Steiner,  both  unmarried. 
!743-     Johannes  Hildbrand,  the  deceased  Jacob's  son,  together  with  his  wife. 
Johannes  Hildbrand,  the  deceased  Hans  Jacob's  son,  unmarried. 
Jacob  Maag,  resin-scraper. 
His  wife,  three  sons,  two  daughters. 

Total:  12  persons. 

THERE  WENT  FROM  WINKEL 
1738.     Hans  Dutweiler. 

His  wife,  two  children. 

Jacob  Mejer,  the  deceased  Conrad's  son. 

His  wife,  three  children. 

Hans  Conrad  Mejer,  wainwright. 

His  wife,  one  child. 

Barbara  Dutweiler,  unmarried. 

Anna  Mejer,  also  unmarried. 

Total  from  Winkel:  14  persons. 

THERE  WENT  FROM  HOCHFELDEN 

J738.     Joseph  Volkert. 

His  wife  Frena  Friesz,  two  sons,  one  daughter. 

Junghans  Maag. 

His  wife  Anna  Herzog,  one  daughter. 

Catharina  Mejerhofer,  Hans  Heinrich  Mejer's  widow. 

One  son,  one  daughter. 

Junghans  Fralj. 

His  wife  Barbara  Engel,  one  son,  one  daughter. 
:743-     Junghans  Mejer. 

His  wife  Verena  Huber,  two  daughters. 

Hans  Jacob  Mejer,  the  above-named's  broth  r,  unmarried. 

Daniel  Horner. 

His  wife  Anna  Kern. 

Total  from  Hochfelden:  22  persons. 

THERE  WENT  FROM  HORENEN 
1734.  ENDHORJ 

Hans  Heinrich  Gaszmann,  died  on  the  way. 
His  wife  Magdalena  Frolj. 
One  child,  Barbara  Gaszmann. 


40  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

1734.     Heinrich  Gaszmann,  died  on  the  way. 

His  wife  Verena  Engel. 

Two  sons,  Hans  Jacob  and  Heinrich. 
1739.     Hans  Gaszmann. 

His  wife  Anna  Bertschj. 

One  son,  Hans  Martin,  one  daughter  Anna  Catharina. 

Junghans  Pfister,  tailor. 

His  wife  Babelj  Gaszmann. 

One  son,  Heinrich,  two  daughters  Dorothe  and  Barbara. 

Junghans  Pfister,  the  deceased  Jacob's  son,  unmarried. 

Hans  Heinrich  Oertlj. 

His  wife  Regula  Oertlj. 

Two  sons,  Felix  and  Heinrich,  two  daughters,  Kljverena  and  Anna. 

NIDERHORJ 
Hans  Jacob  Frolj. 
His  wife  Elsbeth  Brunner. 

Elsbeth  died  in  Rotterdamm. 


Two  children  . 

L  Barbara  died  on  the  sea. 

Total  from  Horj :  27  persons. 

The  grand  total  of  all  souls,  that  emigrated  from  the  parish  Biilach  is  in 
souls.     Attested  by  Pastor  SIMLER.     Biilach,  April  n,  1744. 

No.   1 6.     LIST  OF  THE  PERSONS  WHO  WENT  FROM  THE  PARISH 
BUCHSZ  TO  PENNSYLVANIA 

1734.     September  27. 

1.  Hans  Conrad  Meyer,  born  1682. 

2.  Magdalena  Weidman,  born  1682. 

Son. 

3.  Melchior  Meyer,  born  1720. 

4.  Jacob  Murer,  born  1687. 

5.  Elsbeth  Murer,  born  1690. 

Children: 

6.  Margeth,  born  1720. 

7.  Anna  Margeth,  born  1727. 

8.  Hans  Heinrich  Murer  (cousin  of  the  above).     Deceased  Jacob  Murer's 

son,  born  1720. 

9.  Heinrich  Huber,  born  1698. 

10.  Ursula  Grendelmejer,  born' 1707. 

Boys: 
n.  Hans  Rudolff,  born  1732. 

12.  Hans  Jacob,  born  1733.     Died  in  Rotterdamm. 

13.  Jacob  Schmid,  born  1692. 

14.  Cathrina  Koch,  born  1697.     Died  in  Rotterdamm. 

Children: 

15.  Anna,  born  1719. 

1 6.  Jacob,  born  1720. 

17.  Felix,  born  1722. 

1 8.  Kly  Anna,  born  1729. 

19.  Johannes,  born  1731.     Died  in  Rotterdamm. 

20.  Felix,  born  1733.     Died  in  Rotterdamm. 
1738.     August  22. 

21.  Heinrich  Grendelmeier,  born  1701. 

22.  Margeth  Grendelmeier,  born  1705. 


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Children: 

23.  Heinrich,  born  1727. 

24.  Margeth,  born  1728. 

25.  Elsbeth,  born  1730. 

26.  Felix,  born  1733. 

27.  Barbara,  born  1735. 

28.  Anna,  born  1737. 

29.  Heinrich  Meyer,  born  1701. 

30.  Anna  Vogler,  born  1707. 

Children: 

31.  Vrena,  born  1726. 

32.  Cathrina,  born  1730. 

33.  Barbara,  born  1732. 

34.  Felix,  born  1734. 

35.  Anna  Barbara,  born  1738. 

36.  Hans  Heinrich  Meyer,  born  1698. 

37.  Vrena  Grendelmeyer,  born  1706. 

Children: 

38.  Conrad,  born  1729. 

39.  Elsbeth,  born  1735. 

40.  Regula,  born  1737. 

41.  Felix  Meyer,  born  1704. 

42.  Vrena  Meyer,  born  1705. 

Boys: 

43.  Jacob,  born  1734. 

44.  Felix,  born  1737. 

Buchs,  March  31,  1744.  Attested,  HEINRICH  ULLRICH,  Pastor. 

No.    17.     CAPPEL.     FROM   THIS    PARISH   THERE   JOURNEYED   TO 
CAROLINA  IN  AUGUST  1734 

Jacob  Miiller,  baptized  March  19,  1713.     1  „ 

,7         ,,..,,       ,        .      ,  ,  r  Brother  and  sister. 

Vrena  Muller,  baptized  January  13,  1715.  } 

Rudolf  Lier,  baptized  May  1 8,  1718,  was  unmarried. 

In  May  1739  another  group  left  for  Carolina: 
Ragul  Hagj,  baptized  December  22,  1715.  ^ 
Barbel  Hagj,  baptized  March  30,  1718.        I  Unmarried  brothers 
Hans  Jacob  Hagj,  baptized  May  12,  1720.  f      and  sisters. 
Jacob  Hagj,  baptized  September  24,  1721.  J 

Johannes  Hagj,  baptized  April  30,  1719,  unmarried.     1  „ 

\  °J'      "  '  r  Brother  and  sister. 

Vrenel]  Hagj,  baptized  December  7,  1721,  unmarried.  J 

Jacob  Grob,  baptized  November  9,  1708.  "I  .. 

c  ru.-jA  of  Married  couple. 

Susann  Furrer,  baptized  August  19,  1708.  J 

In  April  1743  there  went  to  Pennsylvania: 
Heinrich  Muller,  baptized  February  14,  1720,  unmarried. 
Thommen  Lier,  baptized  September  26,  1725,  unmarried. 
Jacob  Bar,  baptized  April  28,  1720,  unmarried. 
Ulrich  Vollenweider,  baptized  December  5,  1723,  unmarried. 

April  25,  1744.  Attested,  MATTHEW  ESZLINGER,  Local  Pastor, 


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No.  1 8.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  LEFT  FOR  CAROLINA  FROM 
THE  PARISH  DAGERLEN 


DAGERLEN,  1743 
Parents:  Ages. 

Heinrich  Miiller 53 

Susanna  Geiigisz 51 

Children: 

Adam 22 

Hans  Jacob 21 

Anna.  . 19 

Barbara 15 

Heinrich 14 

Johannes 12 

Hans  Ulrich 8 

Hans  Conrad 6 

RUTSCHWILL,  1743 
Parents: 

Johannes  Hagenbuch 43 

Margretha  Schmid 47 

Children: 

Jacob 17 

Johannes 16 

Hans  Heinrich 15 

Junghansz 10 

Margretha 8 

Ulrich 6 

Parents: 

Verena  Schnider,  Ulrich  M  Oiler's 

widow 36 

Children: 

Hans  Heinrich 14 

Ulrich 12 

Jacob ii 

Barbara 9 

Ursula 6 

Ulrich   Waser,   unmarried  son   of 

Joseph  Waser 30 

Parents: 

Ursula    Gischberger,    whose    hus 
band  had  run  away 29 

Children: 

Ulrich  Miiller,  stepson 20 

Rudolph 2 

Anna 3  weeks 

BERG,  1734 

Jacob  Hagenbuch 36 

Barbara  Bachmann 37 

BERG,  1738 

Ages. 
Verena  Wolfer,  unmarried 24 


Parents: 

Anna  Dandliker,  Jacob  Wolffens- 

berger's  widow 51 

Children: 

Anna 38 

Hansz 14 

Jacob 12 

Regula 10 

BANK,  1743 
Hans    Ulrich    Schwarz,    Jacob 

Schwarz's  son 1 8 

OBERWILL,  1738 
Parents: 

Jacob  Stuki 46 

Barbara  Hugenbergerin 47 

Children: 

Daniel 20 

Jacob 1 8 

Johannes 16 

Peter 13 

Ulrich 7 

f  Laurenz     Blatter,      unmarried; 
I      Andreas  Blatter's  son 21 

OBERWILL,  1743 
Parents: 

Andreas  Blatter 56 

Maria  Dietrich 54 

Children: 

Johannes 17 

Verena 15 

Parents: 

Bernhardin  Erzinger 39 

Barbara  Blatter 47 

Children: 

Barbara 17 

Kathrina 3 

Parents: 

Adam  Blatter 45 

Margretha  Wuhrmann 44 

Children: 

Verena 12 

Johannes 9 

Barbara 5 

Magdalena 3 

1743 
Barbara    Weber,    Daniel    Morff's 

wife 54 

Total:  6 1  persons. 


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No.  19.     DELLICKON.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS,  WHO  LEFT  FOR 
THE  COUNTRY  CAROLINA 

September  27,  1734,  Regula  Weisz  left  for  that  place,  legitimate  daughter  of 
Rudj  Weisz  and  Barbara  Schwallj,  both  of  Dellickon.  She  was  baptized  Septem 
ber  18,  1712.  (Documentary  proof.) 

After  this  daughter  had  given  promise  of  marriage  to  the  carpenter's  mate, 
Johannes  Matthysz  of  Watt,  these  two  persons  were  united  in  marriage  on  my 
recommendation  in  the  city  of  Basel,  by  Mr.  M.  Andreas  Merian,  candidate  for 
the  ministry. 

August  27,  1738,  there  journeyed  to  the  aforesaid  land  the  following  persons: 

1.  Heinrich  Spillmann,  wainwright,  from  Dellickon.     Baptized   December  25, 

1692.     (Documentary  proof.) 

2.  Elsbeth  Riimeli,  from  Seebach,  wife  of  the  preceding.     Baptized  July  24,  1687. 

(Documentary  proof.) 
Children: 

3.  Heinrich,  baptized  October  20,  1722. 

4.  Verena,  baptized  February  18,  1725. 

5.  Caspar  Spillmann,  brother  to  the  above,  baptized  August  7,  1701.     (Docu 

mentary  proof.) 

6.  Anna  Miiller,  from  Schlieren,  baptized  December  8,   1700.     (Documentary 

proof.) 

7.  Hanseli  Spillmann,  the  son  of  the  last-named  brother,  baptized  July  9,  1730. 

From  the  above-mentioned  Heinrich  Spillmann,  wagon-maker,  a  letter  has 
come,  dated  May  19,  1743,  from  Carolina,  concerning  the  truthfulness  of  which 
there  is  doubt,  owing  to  various  causes. 

Dellickon,  April  2,  1744.  HANS  JACOB  OERJ,  Pastor. 

No.  20.     DATTLIKON,  MARCH  27,  1744.     (SEE  PLATE  i) 

About  nine  years  ago,  there  journeyed  from  here  to  Pennsylvania,  and 
established  himself  near  Philadelphia,  as  a  report  to  me  from  there  shows: 

Jacob  Weydmann,  a  mason,  aged  40,  with  his  wife  and  four  small  children. 
In  spring,  a  year  ago,  there  followed  after  him,  contrary  to  my  admonition, 
preached  from  the  pulpit  in  a  sermon  specially  devoted  thereto,  and  in  spite  of 
remonstrances  in  private: 

1.  Heinrich  Bretscher  from  Blumetshalden,  aged  27,  and  his  wife  Anna  Wetzstein, 

aged  19,  with  her  brother  Jacob  Wetzstein,  aged  21.     They  carried  a  good 
sum  of  money  along  with  them,  how  much  I  do  not  know. 

2.  Heinrich  Miiller,  aged  42,  and  his  wife  Margaretha  Herzog,  aged  39,  with 

four  small  children,  and  the  sister  of  Miiller,  Ursula,  aged  46.     He  also  took 
along  a  good  amount  of  money,  the  sum  is  not  known  to  me. 

3.  Felix  Ernst,  aged  37,  and  his  wife  Elsbetha  Weydmann,  aged  41. 

4.  The  above  Jacob  Weydmann's  sister,  also  with  four  small  children;    she  had 

little  money. 

Then  Heinrich  Weydmann,  unmarried,  aged  23,  was  also  provided  with  a 
sum  of  money. 

I  do  not  know  of  anyone  who  has  a  desire  to  follow  the  above,  but  one  or 
another  may  be  concealing  his  wish,  cherished  within,  and  be  waiting  only  for  a 
report  as  to  how  those  fared  who  left. 

The  paternal  care  of  our  gracious  rulers  is  Christian,  good,  necessary,  praise 
worthy.  But  along  with  this,  it  is  no  less  good  and  necessary,  if  one  gives  to  the 
poor  industrious  but  unemployed  people  enough  work  for  their  necessary  suste 
nance,  or  otherwise  gives  them  some  needy  assistance,  then  they  would  be  glad 
to  remain  in  their  native  land. 

This  is  written  with  my  feeble  hand.     (Haec  manu  infirma.) 


Kuhn  1 

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44  LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

No.  21.     FROM  THE  PARISH  DIELSTORFF  THE  FOLLOWING  FAMILY 

HAS   GONE   AWAY   TO    CAROLINA 

Heinrich  Kuhn 

Regula  Zobelj 

Felix  Kuhn 

Heinrich  Kuhn  f-  Children. 

Peter  Kuhn       J 

Total  five  persons.  Attested, 

Dielstorf,  March  31,  1744.  HANS  HEINRICH  WIRTZ,  Pastor. 

No.  22.     FROM  THE  PARISHES  DIETLIKON  AND  RIEDEN  THE  FOL 
LOWING  FAMILIES  AND  PERSONS  HAVE  LEFT  FOR 
CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA 

1734.     I.  Jacob  Hunen,  called  Bieler's,  born  1700. 

2.  His  wife  Elsbeth  Mejer,  born  January  10,  1699. 

3.  Regula,  their  daughter,  born  November  2,  1727. 

4.  Ulrich  Schwarzenbach,  from  Rieden,  born  September  i,  1705. 

5.  His  wife  Barbel  Hanslj,  from  Briitten,  born  May  29,  1798. 

6.  Felix,  their  son,  born  April  12,  1733. 

7.  Heinrich,  their  son,  born  September  19,  1734. 
1739.     8.  Caspar  Kuhn,  from  Rieden,  born  October  10,  1713. 

9.  His  wife,  Anna  Magdalen  Mejer,  from  Riimlang,  born  January  21,  1714. 
10.  Anna,  their  daughter,  born  April  29,  1739. 
1743.  ii.  Kilion  Hinnen,  mason,  a  widower,  born  December  16,  1694. 

12.  Jacob  Rathgeb  Schneider,  from  Dietlikon,  born  April  15,  1703. 

13.  His  wife,  Anna  Wintsch,  born  January  19,  1712. 

14.  Hans  Rudolff,  their  son,  born  September  9,  1734. 

15.  Regula,  their  daughter,  born  March  23,  1737. 

16.  Heinrich,  their  son,  born  July  6,  1738. 

17.  Hans  Conrad,  their  son,  born  October  2,  1740. 

18.  Hans,  their  son,  born  April  22,  1742. 

Thus  attests, 

JOHN  JACOB  UTZINGER,  Pastor. 

No.  23.    FROM  DUBENDORFF  THERE  LEFT  FOR  CAROLINA  IN  THE 

YEAR  1734 

Born: 

Jacob  Danzler,  tailor  (",,      .    ,  f  July  15,  1703 

'  •{  Married  couple Hr^         L 

Magdalena  Pfister       [.  [_  December  26,  1698 

Children: 

Jacob July  28,1 726 

Hans  Rudolff May  9,  1728 

Margaretha January       5,  1730 

Jacob May  24,  1 733 

Pastor  MANZ. 

NO.   24.      DiJRNTEN 

No  one  has  yet  gone  from  this  parish  either  to  Carolina  or  Pennsylvania. 
There  are  some  indeed  who  wander  about  wretchedly  as  homeless  people,  thus  a 
dismissed  judge  from  Diirnthen,  viz.:  Hans  Caspar  Hotz.  Also  a  certain  Dand- 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES      45 

liker  from  Griiningen,  who  for  several  years  had  settled  in  the  village  and  also 
had  spent  everything,  he  is  with  a  wife  and  child. 

From  Ober-Diirnten  a  certain  Keller  from  the  parish  Mur  is  also  wandering 
about  in  misery  as  a  wretched  head  of  a  family  with  a  wife  and  six  children. 
Then,  a  certain  Letsch,  with  wife  and  child,  but  who  still  has  means  to  maintain 
himself;  he  is  a  saddler  by  trade. 

ZELLER,  Minister. 

NO.  25.    LIST  OF  THOSE  WHO  LEFT  THE  PARISH  DYNHART  FOR  THE 

NEW  WORLD 

Heinrich  Bosshart,  from  Dynhart,  born  December  22,  1695. 
Anna  Schaub,  his  wife,  born  November  12,  1694. 
Children: 

Kaspar,  born  October  2,  1718. 

Heinrich,  born  December  26,  1725. 

This  Bosshart  with  his  wife  and  two  boys  left  in  1734. 
Ulrich  Brunner,  from  Aeschlikon,  born  February  8,  1686. 
Anna  Ernin,  his  wife,  aged  65  years. 
Children: 

Heinrich,  born  October  8,  1719. 

Rudolff  Brunner,  also  Ulrich's  son,  born  August  27,  1713. 

Elsabetha  Geyer,  his  wife,  born  January  12,  1715. 
Child: 

Hans  Ulrich,  born  December  17,  1741. 

These  two  households  left  together  in  1743. 
Ulrich  Huggenberger,  from  Wetzikon,  born  January  23,  1698. 
Magdalena  Duttweiler,  his  wife,  born  July  7,  1700. 

This  couple  had  no  children  and  left  in  1743. 
Ursula  Sommer,  Jacob  Sommer's  (deceased)  daughter,  from  Aeschlikon,  born 

March  24,  1712,  was  in  service  at  Stein  and  left  with  the  above,  in  1743- 
Anna  Ammann,  Ulrich  Ammann's  daughter,  from  Wetzikon,  born  October  29, 
1713,  served  at  Berg,  the  parish  Dagerlen  and  left  with  several  from  this 
parish  in  1743. 

These  are  the  persons,  who  against  all  warnings  left  the  parish  of  Dynhart, 
with  the  purpose  of  going  to  Carolina. 

Dynhart,  April  10,  1744.  Attested  by  JOHN  RUDOLFF  BUELER. 

On  further  inquiry  it  appears  that  also  Anna  Stapfer,  the  daughter  of  the 
deceased  Hans  Jacob  Stapfer,  from  Sulz,  born  October  5,  1704,  left  with  several 
from  Ellikon,  where  she  served,  without  giving  notification  in  the  parsonage  of 
Dynhart,  in  the  year  1743. 

No.  26.    THE  FOLLOWING  PERSONS  LEFT  THE  PARISH  EGLISAU  IN 

JUNE,  1743 

Born  Family 

I. 

1692     Ulrich  Hartmann,  turner,  at  the  Steig,  July  24. 

1695     Anna  Fehr,  December  25. 

Children: 

1728     Anna  Barbara,  May  22. 

1730     Heinrich. 

1732     Hans  Jacob,  August  10. 

1737     Anna  Catharina,  February  10. 


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2. 

1699     Hans  Marthj,  inn-keeper,  boatman  at  the  Burg,  February  28. 
Verena  Keiser. 

3- 
1717     Hans  Ullrich  Sprenger,  September  12. 

1716  Verena  Schnetzer,  December  26. 

4- 
1679     Regula    Utzinger,    April    20.     Deceased    Rodolf    Schneider's    wife    from 

Oberriedt. 
Her  son. 
1712     Jacob  Schneider,  boatsman,  February  26. 

1717  Regula  Hartmann: 
Children: 

1740    Anna,  August  2. 

1742     Hans  Jacob,  February  13. 

5- 

J705     Jacob  Keiser,  January  28.     Weaver  at  Oberriedt. 
1711     Regula  Braitter,  April  15. 

6. 

1694     Fronnyk  Keiser,  October  27,  Ulrich  Bechtold's  wife  from  Oberriedt. 
With  two  children. 

1724     Magdalena,  November  19. 
1729     Barbara,  March  13. 

7- 

1717     Johannes  Jauschlj,  at  the  Staig,  March  2. 
Ursula  Meyer. 

Rodolff  Keiser,  Marthj  Keiser's  (deceased)  son  at  Oberriedt. 
1721     Elisabeth  Meyer,  Jacob  Meyer's  (forester)  daughter  at  Seglingen,  April  13. 

Total:  24  persons. 

No.  27.     LIST  OF  EMIGRANTS  FROM  THE  PARISH  ELGG  FOR  PENN 
SYLVANIA  AND  CAROLINA 

1737 

Hansz  Ulrich  Hofmann,  from  Schottiken,  baptized  September  18,  1718. 

1742 

Hansz  Conrad  Brunner,  from  Schottiken,  baptized  October  18,  1711. 
Anna  Barbara  Speker,  baptized  June  2,  1715. 

Same  year 

Hans  Ulrich  Vogler,  from  Elgg,  glazier,  baptized  February  n,  1703. 
Anna  Maria  Trachsler,  baptized  May  31,  1702. 
Children: 

Anna  Magdalena,  baptized  August  8,  1728. 

Hansz  Heinrich,  baptized  April  n,  1731. 

Caspar,  baptized  July  28,  1737. 

Hans  Ulrich,  baptized  April  15,  1739. 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  April  19,  1741. 

1743 

Journeyed  to  Pennsylvania  together  with  two  persons  from  Veldheim,  to 
claim  an  inheritance  of  7500  fl.  from  their  cousin  Hans  Ulrich  Hagmann  at  the 
time  in  Germantown. 

Rudolf  Biichi,  from  Schottiken,  Zurich,  messenger's  son,  baptized  December  i, 
1720. 


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Anna  Barbara  Peter,  Hans  Ulrich  Peter's  daughter  in  Schneit,  baptized  December 

29,  1720. 

Atque/eodem  anno/alio  Patriam  quaerunt  hub  Sole  jacentem. 
(And  in  the  same  year  there  sought  a  fatherland  cast  under  another  sun) : 
Caspar  Biichi,  hatmaker,  from  Elgg,  baptized  December  3,  1693. 
Anna  Barbara  Hegnauer,  baptized  April  24,  1697. 
Children: 

Margaretha,  baptized  December  16,  1725. 

Heinrich,  baptized  November  17,  1726. 

Anna  Barbara,  baptized  August  13,  1730. 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  January  6,  1732. 

Caspar,  baptized  August  I,  1734. 

Hans  Ulrich,  baptized  April  n,  1743. 

The  same  year 

Ulrich  Biichi,  from  Elgg,  a  widower,  baptized  February  6,  1698. 
Daughter: 

Susanna,  baptized  February  I,  1728. 
Sister : 

Maria,  baptized  December  2,  1708. 

The  same  year 

Bernhard  Keller,  from  Elgg,  baptized  December  6,  1711. 
Lisabeth  Biichi,  baptized  February  15,  1711. 
Children: 

Joachim,  baptized  November  10,  1737. 

Lisabeth,  baptized  March  n,  1739. 

Susanna,  baptized  April  i,  1742. 

The  same  year 

Joachim  Peter,  from  Giindliken,  baptized  September  n,  1704. 
Lisabeth  Lieber,  baptized  September  26,  1711. 
Children : 

Elsbeth,  baptized  September  10,  1730. 

Rudolf,  baptized  December  9,  1732. 

Joachim,  baptized  December  13,  1733. 

Melchior,  baptized  July  15,  1736. 

Hugo,  baptized  October  20,  1737. 

Anna  Barbara,  baptized  November  15,  1738. 

Anna  Magdalena,  baptized  February  24,  1743. 

The  same  year  1743 

Jacob  Buchmann,  from  Schottiken,  baptized  March  22,  1696. 
Margaretha  Schwizler,  baptized  December  25,  1698. 
Children: 

Jacob,  baptized  September  28,  1721. 

Hansz  Ulrich,  baptized  July  26,  1723. 

Heinrich,  baptized  January  13,  1726. 

Salomon,  baptized  August  25,  1729. 

Anna,  baptized  August  24,  1732. 

Margaretha,  baptized  April  n,  1734. 

Joachim,  baptized  June  30,  1737. 

Hansz  Conrad,  baptized  July  10,  1740. 
Total:  47  Persons. 

Delivered  in  May,  1744.  By  J.  CONRAD  WIRZ,  Minister  at  Elgg. 


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No.  28.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  WENT  FROM  THE  PARISH 
ELSAU  TO  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA,  ANNO  1734-1744 


Date  of  Birth 
October        6,  1716. 

i 
Deceased  Hans  Ulrich  Huber's  sons 
from  Rumiken: 
Hans  Conrad  

Left  for  Carolina 
November  4   1734 

October         i,  1719. 

Samuel  

November  3    1734 

July              9,  1699. 

2 

Andreas  Briincker  from  Rumiken  .... 

November  4   1734 

September    8,  1695. 
Children: 
July             10,  1722. 
March           5,  1724. 
April            14,  1726. 
November    9,  1727. 
August          6,  1730. 
July             20,  1734. 

Regula  Herter,  his  wife. 

Hans  Heinrich. 
Hans  Conrad. 
Hans  Ulrich. 
Jacob. 
Maria  Lisabeth;  N.B.  Died. 
Abraham. 

March  23,  1697. 
March  23,  1682. 

Children: 

November  30,  1704. 
October  9,  1707. 
July  14,  1709. 

September  17,  1713. 
March  13,  1718. 
January  9,  1724. 
June  21,  1727. 


Salomon  Ruckstul  from  Riimicken.  .  .  .November  4,  1734. 
Barbara  Biichj. 


Joachim. 
Salomon. 
Hans  Conrad. 
Cleophea. 
Barbara. 
Hans  Heinrich. 
Hans  Ulrich. 

N.B.     We  have  heard  that  the  first  three  sons,  Joachim,  Salomon  and  Hans 
Conrad  changed  their  intention  and  stayed  behind  in  Alsace. 

4  Left  for  Pennsylvania 

August        1 8,  1700.     Melchior  Ruckstul  from  Riimicken. 

February    20,  1698.     Margreth  Egg,  his  wife July  4,  1743. 

Children: 

1737,  baptized.     Verena  Marithi,  spuria,  child  of  Verena  in  Winterthur,   and 
Schupisser  in  Oberwinterthur. 

Elsau,  April  16,  1744.         Attested:  JOHN  CASPAR  FREUDWEILER,  Pastor. 

No.  29.    THE  FOLLOWING  PEOPLE  HAVE  LEFT  EMBRACH  FOR  PENN 
SYLVANIA  AND  CAROLINA 

1.  Hans  Zollicker  with  wife  and  seven  children. 

2.  Elsbeth  Fasi,  Heinrich  Zollicker's  widow,  with  2  children. 

3.  Kilian  Zollicker  with  his  wife  and  six  children. 

4.  Heinrich  Cappeler  of  Oberembrach,  with  one  son  and  son's  wife. 

5.  Rudi  Cappeler's  widow,  Elsbeth  Biichi,  from  Oberembrach. 

6.  Jacob  Bachmann  from  Untermetterstetten  and  his  wife. 

7.  Ulrich  Huber,  from  Loch,  with  his  wife  and  two  children. 

8.  Jacob  Bosserth,  of  Mulliberg,  with  his  wife  and  four  children. 

9.  Caspar  Huber's  (deceased),  of  Oberwageburg,  son  and  daughter. 

10.  Felix  Bentz's  two  sons  (Bentz,  who  was  killed  by  accident). 

11.  Peter  Banningers  son,  Ulrich,  of  this  place. 

12.  Hansz  Conradt  Heuszer,  with  his  wife  and  three  children. 


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13.  The  wife  of  Bernet  Wipfen  who  was  killed  by  accident,  with  one  child. 

14.  David  Leimbacher,  with  his  wife  and  three  children. 

15.  Ulrich  Huber,  of  Underwagenburg,  with  wife  and  4  children. 

16.  Rudolff  Bosserth,  of  Mulliberg,  with  wife  and  3  children. 

17.  Ruedi  Cappeler's  daughter. 

1 8.  Hansz  Heinrich  Bosserth's,  of  Miilliberg,  one  son  and  daughters. 

19.  Catarina  Meier,  daughter  of  Hans  Meier  of  Embrach,  deceased. 

20.  Ursel  Bosserth,  daughter  of  Heinrich  Bosserth  of  Miilliberg,  who  has  dis 

appeared. 

21.  The  son  of  Jacob  Bosserth  ab  der  Stiegen,  deceased. 

22.  Heinrich  Krebser's,  of  Rottenfluh,  son  Rudolf. 

23.  Johannes,  son  of  Jacob  Krebser,  deceased. 

24.  Jacob  Banninger,  son  of  Ulrich  Banninger  of  Embrach. 

Total:  73  people. 
Received  March  28.     Sent  the  3Oth. 

No.  30.     FROM  LUFFINGEN.     (SEE  PLATE  2) 

In  1738  Hans  Ulrich  Meyer  with  his  wife  and  two  young  children  journeyed 
to  Carolina.  Because  of  my  remonstrances  no  one  has  dared  to  do  it  since. 

Most  Honorable,  Most  Learned,  and  Most  Revered  Superior: 

That  I  have  not  sooner,  according  to  your  command  handed  in  the  list  of  the 
people  who  have  left  or  are  leaving  for  Carolina  or  the  West  Indies,  is  due  to 
certain  restraining  inconveniences  and  consequent  forgetfulness,  but  not  to 
stubborn  insubordination  or  carelessness.  As  far  as  my  parish  is  concerned, 
I  do  not  know  of  a  single  person  who  has  cherished  a  desire  for  this  so-called 
promised  land,  where,  according  to  some  people's  fancy,  roast  pigeons  fly  into 
one's  mouth,  nor  one  who  has  departed  thither.  My  parishoners  believe  in  the 
proverb  "dulce  natale  solum"  (Sweet  is  one's  native  land).  They  prefer  to 
remain  in  the  land,  according  to  the  words  of  the  psalmist,  but  the  making  of  an 
honest  living,  alas!  alas!  has  not  always  proved  true,  and  still  they  prefer  to 
suffer  hunger  at  home  than  to  desire  such  a  "fruitful  land,"  as  many  frivolous 
persons  believe  Carolina  or  Pennsylvania  to  be.  May  God  make  us  all  long  more 
and  more  for  the  Heavenly  Canaan,  where  there  is  completeness  of  joy,  happiness 
and  bliss  forever  at  His  right  hand.  With  heartfelt  greetings,  and  committing 
you  to  divine  protection,  I  remain,  for  the  duration  of  my  life,  my  Most  Honor 
able  Superior's  humble  servant  CONRAD  SUICER,  Pastor. 

Erlenbach,  May  i,  1744. 

No.  31.    LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  WENT  FROM  THE  PARISH 
OF  FALLANDEN  TO  CAROLINA 

1.  Jacob  Aepplj,  born  July  10,  1701,  his  wife  Anna  Fenner,  born  March  31,  1705- 
Children: 

Margreth,  born  December  5,  1728. 
Johannes,  born  August  16,  1735. 

2.  Hansz  Jacob  Aepplj,  born  January  6,  1704,  his  wife  Verena  Wetstein,  born 

September  26,  1706. 
Child: 

Rudolff,  born  September  25,  1735. 

3.  Christoph  Hauser,  widower,  born  May  10,  1691,  the  daughters: 

Barbara,  born  November  30,  1717. 
Anna  Barbara,  born  May  2,  1719. 

4.  Hans  Rodolf  Bodmer,  born  May  i,  1692. 

His  wife,  Regula  Gachnang,  born  July  9,  1703. 


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Children: 

Hans,  born  June  16,  1726. 
Heinrich,  born  November  14,  1728. 
Cleophea,  born  June  14,  1733. 
Regula,  born  April  8,  1736. 

5.  Hans  Ulrich  Bosshart,  born  March  25,  1717.  "I    Brothers,  legitimate    sons    of 
Heinrich  Bosshart,  born  March  23,  1721.        J        Jacob  Bosshart. 

6.  Johannes  Bachmann,  George's  legitimate  son,  October  4,  1712. 

7.  Barbara  Bosshart,  deceased  Jacob's  legitimate  sister,  born  February  17,  1711. 

The  above  persons  all  left  Anno  1738. 
Anno  1743  there  departed: 

8.  Heinrich  Gachnang,  born  March  21,  1717. 
His  wife,  Susanna  Fischer,  born  July  24,  1707. 
Their  children: 

Christoph,  born  September  27,  1739. 
Salomon,  born  November  5,  1741. 

Written  by  JOHN  FASI,  vicar. 
Fallanden,  March  30,  1744. 

NO.    32.      FlSCHENTHAL 

Names  of  those  families  and  persons  from  this  parish  who  from  1734  till  the 
present  have  been  living  in  foreign  lands. 

1.  Regula  Brunner,  widow  of  Heinrich  Egli,  ab  dem  Rohr,  with  six  children, 

named:  Hans  Jacob,  Caspar,  Barbara,  Anna,  and  Regula,  as  well  as 
Maria,  who  was  married  to  Marx  Kagi.  This  couple  is  wandering  about 
the  country  and  no  one  really  knows  where  they  are.  The  mother,  how 
ever,  with  the  other  children  intended  to  go  to  Carolina,  but  came  home 
poor;  and  will  not  be  received  by  the  parish  until  she  can  obtain  the  official 
permission  to  stay  here. 

2.  Salomon  Egli,  a  son  of  the  above-mentioned  woman,  has  been  in  Holland 

for  three  years. 

3.  Abraham  Zuppinger  from  Miillibach  has  also  been  in  Holland  for  about 

three  years. 

4.  Hansz  Jacob  Kagi  from  Lenzen  hired  out  in  Holland  about  two  years  ago. 

5.  Rodolff  Bischoff  from  Wald  has  been  in  Holland  for  three  years. 

6.  Hans  Jacob  Ryser  from  Leimaker  has  been  in  Holland  for  two  years. 

7.  Hans  Ulrich  Schonenberger  from  Heussli  has  been  in  Holland  for  a  year. 

8.  Jacob  Kagi  from  Oberhoff  has  been  in  Holland  for  a  year. 

9.  Hans  Jacob  Bischoff  auf  der  Bodmen  has  a  wife  and  four  children,  deserts 

them,  and  the  children  are  put  upon  the  care  of  the  parish  and  are  supported 
by  alms  or  from  the  church  property.     Where  this  man  is,  no  one  knows. 
It  has  already  been  four  years  since  he  disappeared. 
10.  Hans  Jacob  Zuppinger,  from  Miillibach,  has  also  been  out  of  the  country, 

no  telling  where,  for  four  years. 

This  is  the  specification  made,  according  to  the  official  command,  of  those 
families  and  persons  from  the  parish  of  Fischenthal  who  are  residing  abroad. 
Fischenthal,  April  7,  1744.  Attested:  S.  WEISS,  Pastor. 

No.  33 

DORFF.  On  May  15,  1743,  an  unmarried  man,  named  Martin  Roth,  aged 
27  years,  started  from  here  toward  Pennsylvania  with  150  florins.  He  sent  word 
from  London  that  he  hoped  to  arrive  there  safely,  but,  to  my  knowledge,  there 
has  since  then  been  no  further  word  from  him.  This  circular  I  received  at'  half 


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past  two  in  the  afternoon  and  I  am  sending  it  with  respectful  greetings  to  Rev. 
D.,  Pastor  in  Flaach. 

FLAACH.  The  past  year  three  families  left  my  parish:  Jacob  Fissler  with 
his  wife  and  two  young  men,  Conrad  Fehr  with  his  wife  and  two  children,  and 
Conrad  Gugler  of  Volken  with  his  wife  without  children.  But  four  families 
have  decided  to  leave  next  week  unless  an  official  prohibition  prevents  them, 
which  will  be  immediately  reported  to  the  District  Governor  (Kreis-Landvogt) 
at  Andelfingen.  We  are  sending  the  circular  on  the  same  day  on  which  we 
received  it.  With  greetings,  Rev.  D's  vicar,  Berg. 

BERG.  Anno  1738,  the  following  persons  left  for  Carolina:  Jacob  Bucher 
with  his  wife  and  three  children, — took  about  15  florins  with  him.  Also  Jacob 
Meyer  with  his  wife  and  four  children, — also  took  about  15  florins  with  him. 
Also  Ulrich  Schmid  who  took  about  30  florins  with  him.  Also  Jacob  Fehr,  the 
weaver,  and  his  wife  who  took  about  15  florins  with  them.  Also  Catharina  Egg, 
unmarried,  born  in  Seen.  These  parties  left  in  September  of  the  given  year  1738, 
but  no  report  of  them  has  ever  reached  us.  This  circular  is  being  sent  as  quickly 
as  possible  with  respectful  regards  to  the  Pastor  in  Buch. 

BUCK  a/  Irchel.  Eight  or  ten  years  ago  there  left  my  pa  ish  for  Carolina, 
Heinrich  Meierhofer,  an  unmarried  man  of  30  years,  with  about  30  florins.  He 
is  at  present  in  Carolina  in  the  service  of  Mr.  Samuel  Augspurger,  a  citizen  of 
Bern.  Thereafter  Caspar  Schurter  with  his  wife,  both  30  years  old  and  with 
young  children, — took  with  them  40  to  50  florins.  Where  they  went  we  do  not 
know  yet.  At  present  no  more  from  here  have  any  desire  to  start  out.  A  year 
ago  my  son,  Elias,  vicar  of  Hengart,  in  a  sermon  to  that  purpose,  tried  to  make 
the  dangerous  journey  to  Carolina  distasteful  by  every  conceivable  and  striking 
argument,  and  to  prevent  it,  but  he  found  a  poor  hearing  with  many.  I  received 
the  circular  March  26,  at  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  and  am  sending  it  the 
following  morning  with  greetings  to  the  honorable  pastor  in  Neftenbach. 

No.  34.    SPECIFICATION  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  EMIGRATED  FROM 
THE  PARISH  OF  GLATFELDEN  TO  CAROLINA 

1738 

Parish  Glatfelden, 

Parents :  Ages. 

1 .  Heinrich  Meyer 40 

Zusanna  Meyer 35 

Children: 

Susanna 6 

Lisabeth 4 

1740 

2.  Steffen  Keller,  deceased  Hans' 49 

Elsbeth  Frey 40 

Children: 

Salomea 20 

Heinrich 12 

Hans  Jacob 6 

Parents: 

3.  Brother  of  the  above-mentioned  Steffen  Keller, 

Felix  Keller 45 

Vrena  am  Berg 40 

5 


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Children: 

Hans 15 

Vrena 12 

Susanna 6 

N.B.  This  Felix  Keller  has  with  him  his  mother,  Margaretha  Meyer 
(aged  75),  wife  of  Hans  (Meyer)  deceased:  also  his  unmarried  brother,  Caspar 
Keller  (aged  38). 

1740 
Parish  Zweidlen. 

Parents:  Ages. 

4.  Abraham  Keller 41 

Margaretha  Koffel 39 

Children: 

Bernhard 9 

Vrena 7 

Barbara 5 

Glatfelden.  1743 

Husband  and  Wife. 

5.  Hans  Peter  Lee 60 

Vrena  Meyer 60 

6.  Parents: 

Felix  Lee 40 

Vrena  Martelerj 39 

Children: 

Hans 12 

Anna 10 

7.  Husband  and  Wife. 

Hans  Jacob  Huszer 20 

Madalena  Azenweiler 28 

8.  Parents: 

Caspar  Glatfelder 36 

Lisabeth  Lauffer 34 

Children: 

Anna  Margareth 13 

Anna 1 1 

Salomon 9 

Johannes 7 

N.B.     Has  with  him  his  father-in-law, 

Hans  Jacob  Lauffer 70 

Parents:  1743 

9.  Heinrich  Walder 30 

Dorothea  Lauffer 20 

IO.  Husband  and  W7ife. 

Hans  Peter  Glatfelder 45 

Salomea  am  Berg 40 

N.B.     Has  with  him  his  brother  Felix  Walder,  unmarried 25 

Children: 

Elsbetha 16 

Barbara 14 

Felix 12 

Lisabeth 10 

Hans  Rudolf 9 

Johannes '.   4 


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Zweidlen. 

11.  Parents: 

Hans  Schmid 4° 

Margaretha  Schiiz 3& 

Children: 

Caspar 10 

Johannes 

Hans  Ulrich 4 

Reinszfelden. 

12.  Heinrich  Guth 28 

N.B.  His  wife,  Anna  Scherrer,  with  whom  he  lived  until  that  time  in  the 
parish  of  Neftenbach  is  at  present  trying  to  obtain  a  separation  from  him  from 
the  Matrimonial  Court. 

Total  Number  of  persons — 53. 

No.  35.     FROM  THE  PARISH  GOSSAU  THERE  HAVE  LEFT  FOR 

CAROLINA 

Anno  1734.     From  Bertschiken: 

Rudolf  Walder,  baptized  April  10,  1698,  with  his  wife,  Anna  Stuzin  and  little 
son,  Jacob,  aged  4  years,  took  money  with  him,  50  pounds. 

Anno  1739.     From  Ober-Ottiken: 

Jacob  Zollinger,  baptized  April  27,  1697,  with  his  wife,  Lisabeth  Frey: 
Children: 

Anneli,  aged  10  years. 

Casperli,  aged  6  years. 

Andres,  aged  4  years. 

Babeli,  aged  2  years. 

He  raised  money  on  his  farm  and  took  with  him  500  pounds. 

Attested:  JOHN  HEINRICH  DANIKER,  Pastor. 

No.  36.  LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  FROM  THE  PARISH  OF  GREIFFEN- 
SEE  who,  from  the  year  1734  until  this  present  year  1744, 
either  have  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  or  have  intended  to  go 
there,  but  are  staying  at  present  in  other  places  or  have  re 
turned  home. 

Anno  1734,  in  October,  Margaretha  Vogel,  daughter  of  the  late  Heinrich 
Vogel,  the  mason,  left  this  parish  for  Pennsylvania,  being  then  30  years  of  age. 
She  is  said  to  be  there  at  present. 

Anno  1738.  Hans  Jacob  Wolffensperger,  at  that  time  34  years  old,  and  his 
wife,  Susanna  Danni,  30  years  old,  with  three  children:  Elsbeth,  then  7  years  old, 
Maria,  then  4  years  old,  and  Margaretha,  then  ^  year  old.  This  family  left 
our  parish  in  August  of  that  year.  Went  as  far  as  Basel,  from  there  back  to 
Aarau,  where  they  stayed  almost  two  years.  Since  then  they  have  been  living 
again  in  our  parish. 

Anno  1738.  Heinrich  Drachssler,  the  hedge-maker,  then  23  years  old,  and 
his  wife,  Catharina  Danni,  then  24  years  old,  also  left  here  in  August  of  the 
specified  year,  went  as  far  as  Basel,  from  there  back  to  Aarau  where  they  stayed 
not  quite  a  year,  but  since  then  they  have  been  living  again  in  our  parish. 

Anno  1743.  Johannes  Bleuwler,  son  of  Hans  Heinrich  Bleuwler,  the  butcher, 
28  years  old,  left  here  in  May.  Went  as  far  as  Basel,  where  he  is  now  working 
in  a  mill,  as  journey-man  miller. 


54  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Felix  Bleuwler,  brother  of  the  above,  20  years  old,  left  here  in  May,  went 
as  far  as  Basel  and  has  been  since  then  in  the  French  army. 

Hans  Jacob  Brauch,  son  of  Hans  Conrad  Brauch,  22  years  old,  left  here  in 
May,  went  as  far  as  Basel  and  came  back  from  there  in  a  few  weeks  to  our  parish. 

Hans  Conrad  Burckhard,  son  of  Hans  Conrad  Burckhard,  the  scabbard- 
maker,  14  years  old,  a  very  poor  boy;  the  three  people  above-mentioned  allowed 
him  to  go  with  them  to  Basel  (because  he  could  not  find  a  master  hereabouts), 
where  he  has  been  living  ever  since.  According  to  a  written  report  which  we 
have  received,  he  is  behaving  himself  very  well  and,  through  the  kindness  of  some 
compassionate  people  there  who  have  interested  themselves  in  him,  has  been 
apprenticed  for  five  years  without  apprentice-fee,  to  a  ropemaker,  to  learn  the 
trade. 

Anno  1743.  Hans  Jacob  Wilest,  the  son  of  the  district  judge,  Hans  Conrad 
Wiiest,  22  years  old,  learned  the  locksmith's  trade  and  gave  out  that  he  was  going 
travelling  as  a  journeyman,  but  left  Basel  in  May  with  some  fellow  countrymen 
to  go  to  Pennsylvania,  and  is  said  to  have  married  a  woman  from  the  Oberen 
Strass,  who  once  stood  in  the  pillory  in  Zurich. 

Anna  Wolfensperger,  daughter  of  Jacob  Wolfensperger,  the  joiner,  28  years 
of  age,  went  from  here  to  Basel  in  May  and  started  from  there  with  some  fellow 
countrymen  to  go  to  Pennsylvania  and  is  said  to  have  married  a  fellow  from 
Affoltern  in  the  Albis. 

Greiffensee,  April  i,  1744.     JOHANN  JACOB  ORELL,  Pastor  at  Greiffensee. 

There  was  omitted  above:  Anno  1738.  Magdalena  Drachszler,  daughter 
of  Heinrich  Drachszler,  the  hedge-maker,  deceased,  then  17  years  of  age,  travelled 
from  here  to  Basel  in  August  with  the  intention  of  going  to  Pennsylvania,  but  is 
said  not  to  have  gone  on  from  'there,  but  to  be  wandering  around  elsewhere — 
now  here,  now  there — like  a  good-for-nothing  woman  without  reporting  definitely 
where  she  is  at  present. 

No.  37.    SPECIFICATION  OF  THOSE  PEOPLE  WHO  WENT  FROM  THE 
PARISH  HUSEN  AM  ALBIS,  TO  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA 

Jacob  Ringker,  born  August  16,  1707,  son  of  Captain  Werner  Ringker, 
deceased,  of  Husen; — to  Carolina  September  i,  1741. 

Heinrich  Grob,  born  May  23,  1723,  son  of  Julius,  of  Hirtzwangen; — to 
Carolina  July  24,  1742. 

Sergeant  Heinrich  Hitz,  from  the  Bauder-Albis,  born  July  II,  1697,  with  his 
wife,  Elsbetha  Frick,  of  Knonau,  born  April  18,  1711,  and  four  children:  Verena, 
born  March  16,  1727,  Adelheid,  born  February  10,  1732,  Heinrich,  born  September 
J3i  i?33»  and  Anna,  born  May  u,  1738; — to  Pennsylvania. 

Heinrich  Lier,  of  Ebertschwyl,  born  August  7,  1707,  with  his  wife,  Verena 
Suter,  also  of  Ebertschwyl,  born  October  6,  1705,  and  little  son,  Beat,  born 
September  27,  1733.  Both  parties  to  Pennsylvania  April  29,  1743. 

Sergeant  Johann  Conrad  Schmid,  son  of  the  mason,  of  Heist,  born  June  24, 
1717,  with  his  wife,  Susanna  Hiigi,  also  of  Heist,  born  December  6,  1716,  and  three 
children:  Hans  Jacob,  born  September  17,  1741,  Hans  Rudolf,  January  6,  1743 
and  Regula,  March  I,  1744; — to  Pennsylvania  April  i,  1744. 

April  27,  1744. 

Attested :  JOHANN  JACOB  HIRTZEL,  Pastor. 


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No.  38.  ANNO  1743,  FROM  THE  PARISH  HENKARTT,  WITH  THE 
KNOWLEDGE  AND  CONSENT  OF  THE  Two  HONORABLE  GOV 
ERNORS  OF  KYBURG  AND  ANDELFINGEN,  the  following  families 
and  persons  journeyed  to  the  new-found  land — I  do  not  know 
whether  to  Carolina  or  to  Pennsylvania. 

1.  Jacob  Frauenfelder,  shoemaker,  called  Gabriel,  baptized  October  30,   1707, 

with  his  wife,  Elsbetha  Meyer  von  Buech,  far  advanced  in  pregnancy. 
N.B.     He  was  the  instigator  and  the  seducer  of  the  others  from  the  County. 

2.  Deyes  Frauenfelder,  brother  of  the  above,  baptized  March  17,  1705. 
Verena  Schaub,  his  wife,  baptized  February  18,  1703. 

Children: 

1.  Mathias,  baptized  March  11,  1732. 

2.  Jacob,  baptized  June  23,  1733. 

3.  Ursala,  baptized  July  18,  1734. 

4.  Johannes,  baptized  January  29,  1736. 

5.  Barbara,  baptized  September  8,  1737. 

6.  Heinrich,  baptized  November  15,  1739. 

7.  Conrad,  baptized  October  8,  1741. 

They  took  all  these  seven  children  with  them.  This  family  resided  in  the 
Estate. 

3.  Jacob  Frauenfelder,  called  Grazli,  baptized  December  20,  1705. 
Anna  Weyer,  his  wife,  of  Seen,  baptized  November  9,  1701. 

From  the  County 
Children: 

1.  Anna,  baptized  January  22,  1732. 

2.  Barbara,  baptized  May  20,  1734. 

3.  David,  baptized  October  16,  1735. 

4.  Elsbetha,  baptized  June  16,  1737. 

5.  Hans  Conrad,  baptized  September  10,  1741. 

Took  them  all  with  them. 

4.  Mathias  Frauenfelder,  son  of  Jonas,  baptized  December  10,  1712. 

Barbara  Miiller,  of  Hettlingen,  baptized  August  24,  1710.     Far  advanced  in 

pregnancy. 

N.B.  He  sent  back  from  London,  where  his  wife  recovered  from  the  birth 
of  a  daughter,  a  lamentable  letter,  in  which  he  could  not  write  enough  con 
cerning  how  miserably  they  had  been  deceived,  warning  everyone  against  this 
journey.  Threatens  to  come  home  again,  as  soon  as  it  is  possible. 

He  resided  in  the  Estate. 

These  four  families  emigrated  in  June,  but  the  two  following  ones  in  August. 
Nothing  seemed  so  sad  to  me  as  this  obstinate,  unscrupulous  emigration  of 
these  heartless  parents  with  so  many  innocent  little  children.  I  was  seriously 
ill  at  the  time  or  I  should  have  taken  desperate  measures  to  prevent  the 
same,  and  would  have  sent  the  Elders  immediately  to  the  Honorable  Governors 
on  their  account,  but  all  was  in  vain,  and  my  sickness  was  made  all  the  more 
bitter  for  me, — and  these  people  ~were  as  if  bewitched  and  desperately  resolute, 
for  most  of  them  were  poor  and  could  hardly  get  together  sufficient  money 
for  the  journey;  and,  what  was  worst  of  all,  in  their  answer  to  our  warnings 
they  laid  the  blame — indirectly,  indeed — upon  our  gracious  masters.  Note 
the  following:  If  this  were  true  and  our  gracious  masters  had  allowed  so  many 
of  their  subjects  to  emigrate  from  their  country,  and  if  the  aforesaid  lamentable 
letter  and  other  sad  reports  had  not  reached  the  country,  and  become  known, 
a  good  many  might  have  decided  to  emigrate. 


56  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Each  of  these  six  families  has  an  official  certificate  of  baptism  from  the 
pastor  of  the  parish  with  them.  The  first  four  were  written  in  my  own  hand 
the  last  two  in  the  schoolmaster's  hand,  but  signed  by  me  and  with  these  two 
words  added:  sponte  et  audacter  (voluntarily  and  rashly). 

5.  Hans  Jacob  Frauenfelder,  called  Pfeiffer,  baptized  November  15,  1711. 
Anna  Frauenfelder,  his  wife,  baptized  July  29,  1712. 

Children: 

1.  Ursala,  May  27,  1736. 

2.  Pantaleon,  March  4,  1738. 

3.  Barbara,  July  17,  1742. 

6.  Jacob  Frauenfelder,  son  of  Gabriel,  the  tailor,  baptized  December  3,  1713. 
Elisabeth  Bratschger  of  Aesch,  born  1709. 

Children: 

1.  Barbara,  baptized  March  18,  1736. 

2.  Hans  Heinrich,  baptized  November  24,  1736. 

3.  Elsbetha,  baptized  April  10,  1740. 

4.  Anna,  baptized  September  23,  1742. 

Anna  Frauenfelder,  a  respectable  young  woman,  unmarried,  sister  of  Jacob 

Frauenfelder,    above-mentioned,    baptized    March    29,    1716.     These    two 

families — Nos.  5  and  6 — resided  in  the  County. 
In  all  six  families,  four  from  the  County,  two  from  the  Estate.     Persons — 32. 

Moreover,  under  my  predecessor,  deceased  Anno  1739,  there  left  here  for 
Carolina;  Felix  Frauenfelder,  son  of  Felix  from  the  monastery,  baptized 
November  13,  1701,  and  his  wife,  Elsbetha  Mader,  from  Schleittheim  in  the 
District  of  Schaaffhausen,  baptized  April  14,  1701,  with  five  children,  including 
four  boys,  the  oldest  about  ten  years  old. 

Henkertt,  March  31,  1744.  LEONHARD  HOLZHALB,  Pastor. 

No.  39.  THE  FAMILIES  AND  PERSONS  FROM  THE  PARISH  OF  HEN 
KERTT,  residing  abroad  or  wandering  about  here  and  there, 
March  31,  1744. 

1.  Adam  Miiller,  baptized  December  27,   1672,  widower  since  July  19,   1733; 

resides  in  Schaaffhausen  on  a  vine-raising  estate. 
Children: 

1.  Ursula,  baptized  December  29,  1713.     ~| 

2.  Hans  Ulrich,  baptized  July  25,  1715.      I  They  are  all  said  to  have  been 

3.  Barbara,  baptized  December  22,  1717.  |       baptized  at  Schaaffhausen. 

4.  Rodolff,  baptized  May  23,  1720.  J 

2.  Adam  Miiller,  son  of  the  above,  baptized  January  i,  1705. 

Verena  Siiesstrunk  of  Wisendangen,  March  10,  1716.  Married  April  26,  1735. 
They  also  resided  in  the  District  of  Schaaffhausen,  but  they  are  said  to  have 
settled  permanently  in  the  District  of  Basel. 

3.  Heinrich  Weni  and  Ursala  Chym  of  Schlatt.     The  former's  wife  died  last 

year  at  Schaaffhausen  on  the  vine-raising  estate  which  he  had  leased;  and 
he  returned  this  year  again  to  this  parish  with  honorable  testimonials  and 
considerable  means,  aged  78  years. 

4.  Deyes  Steinmann,  a  shoemaker,  baptized  October  4,   1687,  was  married  in 

the  margravate  of  Weil,  an  hour's  distance  from  Basel,  to  Sara  Seiffert, 
February  2,  1717.  According  to  a  letter  which  we  have  received,  he  died 
September  3,  of  last  year,  and  his  death  has  been  published  here.  He  leaves 
behind  his  wife  and  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  the 
one  son  and  the  one  daughter  are  already  married.  The  children  are  called: 

Anna  Maria, 

Lorenz  Simeon, 

Johann  Conrad. 


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5.  Hans  Jacob  Frauenfelder,  smith,  baptized  February  14,  1698.  He,  it  appears, 
disappeared  suddenly  and  since  then  no  one  has  heard  the  slightest  word 
from  him.  His  wife,  Anna  Blickenstorffer,  baptized  August  20,  1699, 
wanders  about  the  country  with  her  daughter,  Margaretha,  baptized 
January  16,  1734,  an  illegitimate  child,  conceived  in  adultery,  and  spends 
much  of  her  time  in  the  districts  of  Baden  and  Bern.  The  son,  Hans 
Ulrich  Frauenfelder,  baptized  March  29,  1,722,  also  wanders  around  begging. 

Hans  Jacob  Frauenfelder,  son  of  the  younger  Graz,  baptized  January  8,  1690. 

Joseph  Frauenfelder,  brother  of  Grazli,  baptized  December  6,  1711. 

Hans  Conrad  Frauenfelder,  son  of  Baschi,  baptized  January  30,  1701. 

Hans  Conrad  Steiner,  brother  of  Seepe,  baptized  June  14,  1705. 

Unknown 

Also  some  people  60-70  years  old  or  more,  some  of  them  discharged  soldiers, 
some  of  them  vagrants,  of  whom  nothing  is  known,  Baschi,  David,  Hans  Conrad, 
Jacob,  Isaac  Frauenfelder. 
Hans  Ulrich  Frauenfelder,  son  of  Joseph,  deceased,  is  living  in  Strassburg.     He 

was  here  in  this  country  two  years  ago,  living  with  a  woman  whom  he  is  since 

said  to  have  married.     Baptized  May  4,  1719. 
Hans  Jacob  Frauenfelder,  called  Weber,  baptized  August  16,  1696. 
Barbara  Frauenfelder,  baptized  November  14,  1797. 
Children: 

1.  Hans  Ulrich,  baptized  October  7,  1725. 

2.  Anna,  baptized  April  4,  1728. 

3.  Barbara,  baptized  January  I,  1730. 

4.  Hans  Jacob,  baptized  March  21,  1734. 

5.  Hans  Peter,  baptized  July  13,  1738. 

Sold  his  property  here  and  established  himself  with  his  family  in  Buesingen. 

There  are  also  three  or  four  women  missing  who  are  said  to  have  gone  to  the 
lowlands,  or  to  be  wandering  about  elsewhere,  or  to  be  in  the  realms  of  the  dead. 
At  any  rate,  we  do  not  know  anything  about  them. 

The  soldiers,  who  are  at  present  serving  in  Holland  or  elsewhere,  have  been 
listed  in  another  place. 

LEONHARD  HOLZHALB,  Pastor. 

No.  40.    LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  HAVE  GONE  TO  CAROLINA 
FROM  THE  PARISH  OF  HEDINGEN,  ANNO  1743 

1.  Barbel  Hunn,  wife  of  Heiri  Schmid,  deceased,  from  the  District  of  Bern. 
Children: 

Maria,  born  February  14,  1723. 
Heiri,  born  September  14,  1727. 
Tomas,  born  June  23,  1733. 

With  them  went  Uli  Stahli,  born  January  9,  1706.     He  is  a  poor  stupid  fellow, 
good  for  nothing. 

Also 
Catri  Hubschmid,  daughter  of  the  miller  at  Hedingen,  born  1700. 

Also 
Elseli  Hedinger,  daughter  of  Heiri  Hedinger,  born  December  15,  1720. 

2.  Heiri  Meili,  son  of  Heiri,  went  with  his  wife  and  children  either  there  or  to 

Pennsylvania.  Many  years  ago  he  sold  all  that  he  had  in  Hedingen  and 
since  then  h  as  not  been  living  in  Hedingen,  but  in  Maschwanden  with  his 
wife  and  children,  so  that  he  should  be  reported  from  Maschwanden. 

Attested:  JOHANN  FASI,  Pastor. 


58  LISTS  OF  SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

No.  41 .  IN  ANSWER  TO  THE  OFFICIAL  COMMAND  WHICH  I  RECEIVED 
FROM  THE  HONORABLE  DEAN  FASI  AT  HEDINGEN,  TO  GIVE  AN 
ACCOUNT  OF  THE  PERSONS  FROM  THIS  PARISH  OF  RIFFER- 
SCHWuL  WHO  HAVE  GONE  TO  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA, 
I  REPORT  THE  FOLLOWING  TO  THE  HONORABLE  DEAN: 

Oberschweil 

The  first  left  April  28,  1739,  namely: 

Johannes  Schleipffer,  baptized  January  8,  1719. 

Johannes  Bar,  born  January  31,  1723. 

Elsbeth  Bar,  born  August  27,  1719. 

Bat.  Rudolff  Bar,  born  May  14,  1719. 

Hans  Heinrich  Bar,  born  December  u,  1720. 

Rudolff  Bar,  born  May  17,  1722. 

Hans  Jacob  Huser,  born  February  9,  1716. 

Under-Rifferschweil 

Hans  Jacob  Widmer,  born  December  6,  1722. 
Anna  Bar,  born  October  13,  1715. 
Johannes  Waber,  born  April  14,  1720. 
Ulrich  Waber,  born  May  12,  1720. 

In  August 

Heinrich  Weber,  born  October  6,  1715. 
Anna  Urner,  born  November  6,  1718. 
Jacob  Weber,  born  December  30,  1725. 

There  also  left  in  1743  in  May: 
Jacob  Frick,  born  August  22,  1697. 
Verena  Bar,  born  July  10,  1718. 

A  ho  from  Ober-Rifferschweil 

Henrich  Schleipffer,  born  May  17,  1705. 

Also  his  wife,  Anna  Grob,  born  August  i,  1706. 

Also  their  children: 

Jacobli,  baptized  in  Meria,  in  Flanders,  Anno  1735. 

Cathri,  born  January  20,  1743. 

Also  from  Under-Rifferschweil,  April  I,  1744: 

Henrich  Urner,  born  June  IO,  1702. 

His  wife,  Anna  Naff,  born  January  14,  1694. 

Their  children: 

Verena,  born  December  17,  1730. 

Johannes,  born  August  7,  1735. 

No.  42.    HERRLIBERG 

The  following  left  for  Carolina  in  1743.     Before  this  there  were  none. 
Born. 

f  Rudi  Wy-man. 
^      \  Dorothea  Sennhauser. 

Children: 
1721.     Elsbeth. 
1 723.     Barbara. 


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1725.  Jacob. 
1729.     Verena. 
1732.     Heinrich. 

1735.  Hans  Heinrich. 
Parents : 

1705.  Heinrich  Kolliker. 

1704.  Ragula  Bratscher. 

Children : 

1732.  Antoni. 

1734.  Heinrich. 

1736.  Anna. 
I739-  Susanna. 
1742.  Hans  Caspar. 

From  Berg 
Father: 

1702.     Heinrich  Haab     (Name  not  entirely  legible.) 
Children: 

1727.  Rodolf. 
1732.     Hans  Rodolff. 

Parents : 

1702.     Heinrich  Hermetschwyler. 
1701.     Barbara  Erzinger. 

Children: 

1726.  Anna. 

1728.  Barbara. 
1731.     Elsbeth. 
]  734.     Jacob. 

CONRAD  ZIEGLER,  Pastor. 
(Signature  added  in  modern  hand-writing.) 

NO.   43.      HlNWEIL 

From  this  parish  there  emigrated  Anno  1743,  with  the  intention  of  going  to 
Carolina: 

Caspar  Honegger,  from  Unterbach,  baptized  February  26,  1708. 
Anna  Schneider,  his  wife,  baptized  July  4,  1706. 

f  Marx,  baptized  February  18,  1733. 
With  three  children  -j  Caspar,  baptized  April  18,  1734. 

[_  Hans  Jacob,  baptized  January  I,  1736. 

He  took  about  160   florins  in  money  with   him  since   his  brothers   bought 
him  out  about  five  years  ago  for  180  florins. 

Hinweil,  April  7,  1744.  JOHANN  LUDWIG  MEYER,  Pastor. 

NO.   44.      HlTTNAU 

Honorable,  Learned,  Highly-Revered  and  Gracious  Dean: 

In  accordance  with  an  official  order,  I  am  to  send  to  the  Honorable  Dean  a 
report  of  those  persons  from  this  parish  who  have  gone  to  Carolina,  in  order 
that  it  may  be  sent  to  the  official  board.  I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  do  this  in  "three 
words,"  as  they  say,  since  there  is  only  one  married  couple: 
Heinrich  Zwik,  tradesman,  from  Oberhittnau,  born  November  3,  1709,  and 
Anna  Riiegg,  born  in  Wollnau,  in  the  parish  Bauma. 

I  have  to  report  that  they  were  married  Anno  1737,  and  are  still  without 
children.     These  people  became  so  rich  from  the  shop-keeping  that  they  set  up, 


60  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IX  THE 

that  they  made  a  great  pile  of  debts,  which  yield  their  creditors  only  the  trouble 
of  looking  after  them.  And  they  knew  how  to  craftily  conceal  their  design  and 
to  secretly  carry  it  out,  so  that  they  could  sell  their  remaining  possessions  and  their 
household  belongings  with  the  plausible  excuse  that  they  must  have  money  for 
the  Whitsuntide  Fair  at  Zurzach  (about  a  year  ago);  with  which  excuse  they 
exacted  payment  of  their  outstanding  debts,  as  far  as  possible, — from  some  they 
got  but  a  little.  So  they  escaped  with  considerable  money  without  letting  any 
one  know,  and  their  departure  was  not  noised  abroad  until  some  time  after  they 
had  gone,  when  they  were  probably  already  safe  in  Holland. 

That  is  all  that  I  can  say  concerning  the  emigration  from  our  beloved  parish. 
I  commend  this  notification  to  the  Board  and  the  Honorable  Dean  and  my  humble 
self  to  their  continued  favor.     Committing  you  to  the  protection  of  Heaven  and 
of  Our  Saviour,  in  dutiful  submission, 
The  Honorable,  Highly-Learned,  and  Gracious  Dean's  humble  servant, 

HEINRICH  FASI,  Pastor. 

Hittnau,  April  i,  1744. 

No.  45.     FROM  THE  PARISH  HOMBRECHTIKON 

Caspar  Muschgg  from  Brauslen,  who  formerly  worked  at  \Vollishofen,  un 
married,  left  for  Carolina  Anno  1734  in  October.  He  appeared  before  the  Magis 
trates  of  the  Estate  Staffen  and  acted  against  their  advice.  No  one  else  so  far 
as  I  know.  No  one  from  Staffen  has  gone  to  America. 

NO.   46.      HORGEN 

From  this  cherished  parish  there  left  last  year  for  Carolina  or  Pennsylvania: 

1.  Hans  Jacob  Grundel,  son  of  Jacob  auf  dem  Bergli,  baptized  November  14, 

1719,  the  son  of  a  poor  man  who  had  worked  as  a  hired  hand. 

2.  Jacob  Strauli,  son  of  Caspar  deceased,  from  Kapfnach,  baptized  December 

24,  1724. 

3.  Heinrich  Stiinzi,  son  of  Marx,  the  tile-maker,  from  Kapfnach,  baptized  August 

22,  1719. 
Horgen,  April  2,  1744.  JOHANN  KELLER,  Pastor. 

No.  47.     FROM  THE  PARISH  ILLNAUW  the  persons  below  described 
left  for  the  so-called  new-found  land  during  the  last  few  years: 

7.  Hanss  Wezstein,  wheelwright,  from  Kemleten,]  They  left  Anno  1737  with  five 
aged  38  years.  children,  of  whom  the  old- 

Anna  Frauenfelder,  his  wife,  aged  est    was    6,    the    youngest 

36  years.  J       ^  year. 

7.  Conradt  Denzler,  from  first,  aged  ]  They  left  with  the  above,  also 

37  years.  with  five  children,  of  whom 
Anna  Wezstein,  his  wife,  aged                                    the  oldest  was  6,  the  young- 

35  years.  1       est  i  year. 

5.  Jacob  Graaff,  of  Rykon,  left  with  wife  and  three  children,  of  whom  the  oldest 

was  7,  the  youngest  3  years,  Anno  1738. 
5.  Margaretha   Keller,   widow  of  the   schoolmaster,   of  Ottikon,   aged   34,   left 

Anno  1738,  with  four  children;  the  oldest  15,  the  youngest  4  years. 

4.  Felix  Widmer,  of  Ottikon,  aged  36  years.      1  They  left  Anno  1743  with  two 
Barbara  Beriither,  his  wife,  aged  children,  the  oldest  8^,  the 

40  years.  youngest  4  years. 

5.  Jacob  Wagmann,  of  Rykon,  aged  36  years.]  They  left  Anno  1743  with  three 
Dorothea  Haffner,  his  wife,  aged  r      children,    the    oldest    6, '  the 

34  years.  J       youngest  2  years. 


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5.  Mathias  Frauenfelder,  of  Rykon,  aged  45  1  They  left  Anno  1743  with  three 

years.  children,   the   oldest    14,    the 

Anna  Trindler,  his  wife,  aged  50  years.  youngest  7  years. 

2.  Hanss  Wurgler,  of  Rykon,  aged  21  years. 

Verena  Morff,  his  betrothed,  aged  20  p  They  left  together  Anno  1743. 

years. 

3.  Vrena  Brandtlin,  aged  22  years.  .-.,      f  These    three    un- 
Regula  Wagmann,  aged  30  years.                            [  R  k      1       married  women 
Anna  Hindermeister,  of  Effretikon,  aged  40  years.]  '    [      left  Anno  1743. 

I.  Barbara  Schlumpf,  of  Horgen,  aged  23,  whose  husband,  Caspar  Windsch,  with 
her  knowledge  and  consent  entered  the  army  for  service  in  Holland  1742. 
She  went  back  to  her  relatives  at  M (inch-Alt orff,  where  she  became  un 
faithful  to  her  husband  and  was  made  pregnant  by  another  man,  with  whom 
she  departed,  Anno  1743,  with  her  father's  help.  From  the  ship  in  Zurich 
she  sent  her  legitimate  little  son  back  to  his  poor  grandmother  in  Horgen. 

Total  44  persons,  including  25  children. 

Illnauw,  April  2,  1744.  Attested:  BALTHASSAR  PEYER,  Pastor. 

No.  48.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  HAVE  LEFT  THE  PARISH 

KLOTEN  FOR  CAROLINA 

KLOTEN 

Anna  Kern,  wife  of  Jacob  Brunner,  with  two  children,  after  having  faith 
lessly  forsaken  her  husband,  went  with  Heinrich  Gotschi  to  Carolina. 

Jacob  Brunner  departed  with  the  daughter  of  his  cousin,  Stiidli,  of  Basser- 
storff ,  whom  he  had  made  pregnant  and  with  whom  he  had  begotten  an  illegitimate 
child.  Because  the  marriage-court  refused  to  sanction  their  union  they  emigrated. ' 
He  was  44  years  old.  He  left  behind  in  the  parish  five  children,  two  sons  and 
three  daughters,  who  have  fallen  as  a  great  burden  upon  the  church  and  the 
parish  for  support. 

Hanss  Kleinpeter's  son,  by  trade  a  carpenter,  24  years  old,  went  to  Carolina 
two  years  ago  with  people  from  Wallissell. 

OPFIKEN 

Felix  Wismann,  born  June  19,  1707,  and  Verena  Foster,  born  November  26, 
1707,  left  with  their  child,  Anna,  born  1740,  with  the  people  from  Wallissell  two 
years  ago. 

Barbara  Eberhardt,  daughter  of  Felix  Eberhardt,  the  cooper,  of  Opfiken, 
born  May  22,  1707,  emigrated  nine  years  ago. 

No.  49.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  HAVE  GONE  FROM  TIME  TO 

TIME  FROM  THE  PARISH  KNONAU  TO  CAROLINA  AND 

PENNSYLVANIA 

To  CAROLINA,  1739 

Heinrich  Walder,  son  of  the  assistant  magistrate,  deceased,  aged  32  years.     Is 

said  to  have  died  on  the  journey. 

Heinrich  Sytz,  son  of  the  village  watchman,  aged  34  years. 
Anna  Walder,  his  wife,  aged  30  years. 
Heinrich  Sytz,  Jr.,  brother  of  the  above,  aged  24  years. 
Caspar  Frik,  son  of  Ulrich,  aged  31  years,  is  said  to  have  died. 
Veronica  Hitz,  his  wife,  aged  32  years. 
Anneli  Frik,  their  little  daughter,  aged  I  year,  is  also  said  to  have  died. 


62  LISTS  OF  SWISS  EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Johanes  Frik,  brother  of  the  above,  aged  20  years. 

Ursala  Frik,  daughter  of  Caspar,  aged  21  years. 

Rudolf  Frik,  son  of  Felix,  deceased,  from  Utenberg,  an  estate  in  the  parish  of 

Knonau,  aged  29  years. 
Anna  Barbara  Frik,  daughter  of  Heinrich,  from  Utenberg,  aged  24  years. 

LEFT  FOR  PENNSYLVANIA,  MAY  i,  1743 
Leonhard  Walder,  of  Knonau,  aged  37  years. 
Anna  Weiss,  his  wife,  aged  39  years. 
Their  children: 

Hanss  Jacob,  aged  16  years. 

Anna,  aged  13  years. 

Hans  Jacobli,  aged  9  years. 

Vreneli,  aged  7  years. 

Dorotheli,  ten  weeks  old. 

Elssbeth  Frik,  daughter  of  Ulrich,  aged  39  years. 
Anna  Frik,  her  sister,  aged  32  years. 
Anna  Sytz,  daughter  of  Heinrich,  aged  21  years. 
Regula  Sytz,  daughter  of  Heinrich,  deceased,  aged  30  years. 

Anno  1744,  April  I,  at  9  o'clock  at  night  there  left  secretly  without  the  knowl 
edge  of  the  Honorable  Governor  or  of  the  pastor. 
N.B.     Barbara  Niehvergelt,  wife  of  Heinrich  Sytz,  whose  husband  is  still  alive 

and  56  years  old.     She,  his  disloyal  wife,  is  43  years  old. 
Hanss  Jacobli  Sytz,  her  9  year  old  son. 

April  6,  1744. 

This  is  attested  by  CHRISTOPHEL  ZIEGLER,  Pastor  at  Knonau. 

No.  50.    SPECIFICATION  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  EMIGRATED  FROM 

KUSSNACHT   FOR   CAROLINA,   ANNO    1743 

From  the  Kiissnachterberg,  from  the  Hoch-Ruti  Born. 

Elsbeth  Tobler,  wife  of  Hans  Erzinger,  deceased 1679 

Children : 

Regula,  November  3 '. 1715 

Hans  Jacob,  April  3 1718 

Maria,  March  3 1720 

Hans  Rudolff,  October  13 1722 

From  Kussnacht 

Caspar  Elliker,  November  15 1700 

Anna  Wirz,  June  16 1705 

Children: 

Anna,  May  26 1 729 

Violand,  April  27 1732 

Caspar,  January  10 1734 

Hans  Heinrich,  May  21 1737 

Lisabeth,  October  13 .  .  . 1739 

With  him  is  his  brother-in-law,  Jacob  Wirz,  April  10 1671 

Johannes  Gimpert,  September  28 1699 

Barbara  Bertschinger,  May  4 1710 

Children: 

Anna,  February  14 1 73° 

Barbara,  August  22 1734 

Heinrich,  September  8 1735 

Johannes,  January  18 1739 

Lisabeth,  November  6 1740 


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These  went  as  far  as  Basel  where  the  father  entered  the  French  service. 
The  mother  came  back  with  the  children  and  since  the  community  would  not 
receive  her,  she  left  the  children  in  the  parish  and  went  away  again. 
Anna  Wirz,  who  was  divorced  from  Conradt  Meyer,  born  January  15,  1714.     She 

is  said  to  be  in  Basel. 

Salomo  Werder,  son  of  Bernhardt  Werder,  deceased,  born  January  2,   1724. 
He  went  to  Holland  and  came  back  again. 

This  is  attested  in  accordance  with  the  official  command  by 

H.  ARMINGER. 

Note  on  the  back:  From  the  parish  of  Staffen  no  one  has  gone  to  the  West 
Indies. 

From  the  parish  of  Mannedorf  no  one. 

Probably  no  one  has  left  from  these  parishes  since  I  have  received  no  report 
in  answer  to  my  repeated  requests. 

No.  51.    LIST  OF  THOSE  PEOPLE  WHO  WENT  FROM  THE  PARISH  OF 

LlNDAU   TO   THE   SO-CALLED   NEW-FOUND   LAND 

1738 

Joachim  Haussli,  of  Winterberg. 
His  wife,  Elsbeth  Ochssner. 
Children: 

Jacob,  aged  about  ten. 
Heinrich,  born  October  27,  1736. 

In  the  same  year: 

Sarah  Blauler,  widow  of  Jacob  Keller,  deceased,  of  Winterberg,  with  her  son, 
Heinrich  Keller. 

1743 

Hans  Felix  Widmer,  shoemaker,  of  Lindau,  born  September  6,  1696. 

His  wife,  Elsbeth  Banninger,  in  October,  1708. 

Children: 

Jacob,  born  February  27,  1725. 

Elssbeth,  October  24,  1728. 

Margaretha,  June  18,  1730. 

Kley- Jacob,  October  12,  1732. 

Elisabeth,  December  19,  1741. 

In  the  same  year: 

Hanss  Kuhn,  of  Graffstahl,  aged  52. 
His  wife,  Barbara  Dentzler,  aged  53. 

In  the  same  year: 

Hans  Ulrich  Wagmann,  of  Dagelschwangen,  January  2,  1699. 
Anna  Huber,  his  wife.     In  October,  1702. 
Children : 

Barbara,  December  9,  1726. 

Heinrich,  April  3,  1728. 

Hans  Jacob,  April  14,  1730. 

Anna,  January  i,  1732. 

Hans  Caspar,  November  18,  1733. 

Margaretha,  September  20,  1737. 

These  last  were  living  on  a  feudal  estate  in  Mur,  from  whence  they  emigrated. 
The  first  two  families  went  to  Carolina,  I  am  told,  the  last  three  to  Pennsylvania. 

Lindau,  April  i,  1744.        Attested:  JOHANN  HEINRICH  ULRICH,  Pastor. 


64  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN  THE 

No.  52.  LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  HAVE  LEFT  THE  PARISH  OF 
MARTHALEN  FOR  CAROLINA  SINCE  1735  OR  WHO  HAVE  DE 
CLARED  THEIR  INTENTION  TO  GO  THERE 

September  24,  1738 

Hans  Ulrich  Binder,  guide,  baptized  October  23,  1698 
Magdalena  Mokli,  his  wife,  October  20,  1700. 

Children: 

Hans  Ulrich,  July  II,  1728. 

Barbara,  November  19,  1731. 
Theopel  Binder,  carpenter,  October  9,  1698. 
Barbara  Leiiw,  his  wife. 

Children: 

Elsbeth,  stepdaughter,  January  9,  1727. 

Hans  Heinrich,  January  i,  1731. 

Hans  Ulrich,  March  14,  1734. 
Hans  Ulrich  Mantz,  Sprungen,  January  20,  1697. 
Anna  Bachmann,  his  wife. 

Children: 

Anna,  November  9,  1732. 

Hans  Jacob,  October  31,  1734. 

Hans  Ulrich,  October  6,  1737. 
Jacob  Binder,  carpenter,  June  28,  1696. 
Ursula  Spallinger,  July  17,  1695. 

Children: 

Magdalena,  April  25,  1728. 

Rudolff,  May  13,  1731. 

Susann,  July  30,  1734. 

Conrad  Mantz,  Sprungen,  September  3,  1699. 
Magdalena  Ritter,  his  wife,  July  14,  1700. 

Children: 

Barbara,  July  i,  1724. 
Magdalena,  February  13,  1729. 
Margreht,  October  9,  1731. 
Hans  Jacob,  March  27,  1734. 
Anna,  July  31,  1735. 
Verena,  March  9,  1738. 

Single  Persons 

Johannes  Wipf,  saddler,  June  17,  1694.     Leaves  behind  a  wife  and  one  son. 

Heinrich  Spallinger,  unmarried,  April  4,  1717. 

Johannes  Mokli,  unmarried,  October  8,  1714. 

Barbara  Wipf,  daughter  of  Georg,  deceased,  unmarried,  September  25,  1716. 

From  all  those  who  left  Anno  1738  not  the  slightest  reliable  report  has  reached 
Marthalen  as  to  where  they  are  or  whether  they  are  still  living. 

Anno  1743 

Heinrich  Wipf,  wheelwright,  September  25,  1692. 

Anna  Dietrich,  his  wife. 

Children: 

Elsbeth,  March  10,  1726. 

Hans  Jacob,  September  25,  1735. 


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Anno  1744 

Georg  Spullinger,  carpenter,  January  21,  1696. 
Margreht  Sagenmann,  his  wife.         f 
Children:  This  woman  came  back  last  week  with  the 

Anna,  December  29,  1728.        -j       children  and  says  that  the  man  was  taken 

Barbara,  May  27,  1730.  by  the  soldiers  down  in  Basel. 

Hans  Jacob,  October  n,  1739.  [ 

The  two  families  who  left  Anno  43  &  44,  gave  out  first  that  they  intended 
to  go  to  Carolina,  then  to  the  Palatinate,  then  to  Alsace,  so  it  is  uncertain  where 
they  did  settle. 

Reported  by  KORRODI,  Pastor  at  Marthalen. 

No.  53.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  WENT  FROM  THE  PARISH 
OF  MUR  TO  CAROLINA 

Anno  1738  there  emigrated  from  Mur 
Parents : 

Hans  Jacob  Ziircher,  baptized  June  16,  1692. 
Anna  Schmid,  of  Griiningen. 
Children: 

Hans  Ulrich,  baptized  August  10,  1717. 

Elsbetha,  baptized  October  3,  1718. 

Leonhardt,  baptized  June  5,  1723. 

Conrad  Aeppli,  son  of  Jacob  Aeppli,  deceased,  baptized  February  7,  1700. 
Hans  Aeppli,  son  of  Jacob  Aeppli,  baptized  March  4,  1708,  unmarried. 


Caspar  Kunz,  son  of  Conrad  Kunz,  deceased,  baptized  October  16,  1703. 
Rudolff  Egg,  son  of  Hans  Rudolff  Egg,  deceased,  baptized  June  7,  1705. 

From  Ebmattingen 
Felix  Meyer,  with  his  wife. 

Anno  1 743,  in  May  there  emigrated 

From  Mur 
Parents: 

Heinrich  Aeppli,  baptized  October  23,  1692. 
Elsbeth  Hotz,  baptized  1690. 
Son: 

Heinrich,  baptized  July  31,  1729. 
Parents: 

Heinrich  Steiner,  baptized  June  14  ,  1705. 
Angelica  Jud,  baptized  May  2,  1706. 
Daughter: 

Barbara,  baptized  February  27,  1742. 

From  Esch 
Mother: 

Anna  Hammig,  wife  of  Felix  Fenner,  deceased. 
Children: 

Hans  Caspar,  baptized  May  14,  1719. 

Hans  Heinrich,  baptized  July  12,  1722. 

Felix,  baptized  November  3,  1725. 
Hans  Jacob  Brunner,  son  of  Heinrich  Brunner,  baptized  March  9,  1712,  unmarried. 


66  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

From  Uessikon 
Parents: 

Felix  Zollinger,  baptized  July  10,  1698. 
Elsbeth  Reiff,  of  Uster,  1697. 
Children: 

Anna,  baptized  July  20,  1723. 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  November  7,  1728. 

Felix,  baptized  September  13,  1733. 

From  Binz 

Jacob  Bantli,  son  of  Rudolff  Bantli,  baptized  March  13,  1718,  unmarried. 
Parents: 

Bernhardt  Wunderli,  baptized  August  21,  1693. 
Elisabeth  Brunner,  August  27,  1693. 
Children: 

Bernhardt,  baptized  November  29,  1730. 

Magdalena,  baptized  January  28,  1733. 

Elsbeth,  baptized  February  13,  1735. 

Heinrich,  baptized  December  15,  1737. 

From  Holl 
Father: 

Heinrich  Triib,  baptized  January  22,  1702. 
Child: 

Anna,  baptized  June  5,  1741. 

JOHANNES  CASPAR  AMMANN,  Pastor. 

No.  54.     FROM  THE  PARISH  OF  MEYLEN  THE  FOLLOWING  PERSONS 

HAVE    GONE    TO    CAROLINA 

June  25,  1743 
Born. 

1710,  August  19.  Andreas  Haab.      1  TT  ., 

,,  f  Husband  and  wife. 

1712,  March  28,  Dorothea  Dolder.  J 

With  their  children: 

1732,  January  22,  Regula. 

1734,  January  10,  Barbara. 

1735,  July  17,  Heinrich. 

1 740,  December  20,  Hans  Jacob. 
This  family  paid  the  emigration  tax. 

June  23,  1743 

There  left  without  permission  from  the  honorable  magistrate,  or  the  knowl 
edge  of  the  pastor, 

1678,  March  10,  Hans  Jacob  Widmer,  widower. 
With  two  daughters, 

1703,  April  22,  Anna.     She  took  with  her  an  illegitimate  child  by  Conrad 

Wunderli,  named  Maria,  born  1736,  November,  17. 
1719,  March  12,  Elsbeth. 

In  July  or  August  1743  there  left: 

1716,  September  20,  Heinrich  Widmer,  shoemaker  and  his  wife. 
1712,  September  4,  Verena  Kolliker,  of  Herrliberg. 

They  have  no  children. 

Total  from  this  parish,  12  persons. 

April  6,  1744.  PASTOR  TOBLER,  of  Meylen. 


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From  the  parish  of  UTIKON  no  one  has  emigrated.     (Written  by  another  hand.) 

Attested:  DEAN  USTERI. 

No.   55.     FROM  THE   PARISH  OF  METTMENSTETTEN  THERE  EMI 
GRATED  EITHER  TO  CAROLINA  OR  TO  PENNSYLVANIA 

September  4,  1738,  from  Rossau 
Hans  Buchmann,  May  9,  1702. 
Regula  Windisch,  March  20,  1707.  r  To  Carolina. 
Hans  Heinrich,  July  28,  1737. 

May  30,  1739,  from  Untermettmenstetten 

Heinrich  Huber,  April  14,  1715.      1         „      .. 
.  f  To  Carolina. 

Anna  Kuetsch,  December  i,  1720.  J 

Verena  Riietsch,  her  unmarried  sister,  November  3,  1715. 

Anna  Gallmann,  daughter  of  Heini,  deceased,  of  Heffertschweil,  born  June  5, 

1695- 

To  Pennsylvania: 

May  I,  1743,  from  Obermettmenstetten 

Heinrich  Ruetsch,  March  8,  1708. 
Verena  Meier, 

Barbara,  January  26,  1738. 

Johannes  Haug,  from  Untermettmenstetten,  February  14,  1723. 
Heiri  Sutter,  from  Grosholtz,  October  16,  1712. 
Hans  Jacob  Resell,  of  Hefertschweil,  March  16,  1727. 
Jacob  Buchmann,  of  Dachlesen,  September  14,  1721. 
Unmarried  Women: 

Elsbeth  Buchmann,  daughter  of  Jogli,  of  Dachlesen,  December  24,  1724. 
Anna  Ringer,  daughter  of  Jacob,  deceased,  from  Rossau,  1713. 

No.  56.     NEFFTENBACH 

Has  lost  the  following  families  on  account  of  Carolina. 

I.  Martin   Gutknecht,   of  Hiiniken,   aged  39,   who,   with   his  wife,    Margareth 

Bertschinger,  aged  40,  and  six  children,  Barbara,  aged  13,  Elsbeth,  aged  n, 
Heinrich,  aged  9,  Johannes  and  Andreas,  twins  aged  7,  and  Susann,  aged  2, 
left,  Anno  1736,  with  the  intention  of  going  to  Carolina,  but  is  said  to  be 
staying  around  Basel  with  them. 

II.  Barbara  Miiller,  of  Hiiniken,  an  unmarried  woman,  aged  23,  who  went  from 

here  to  Carolina  in  1738. 

III.  Jacob  Keller,  from  the  Oeden-Hoff,  aged  43,  who,  with  his  wife,  Susann 
Stephan,  aged  36,  and  seven  children,  Andreas,  aged  13,  Rudolff,  aged  12, 
Jacob,  aged  10,  Felix,  aged  8,  Heinrich,  aged  7,  Hans  Jacob,  aged  4,  Hanss 
Rudolff,  aged  3,  also  left  in  1738,  and  no  one  has  been  able  to  find  out  any 
thing  about  them  since  then,  although  they  promised  to  write. 

IV.  Jacob  Scherer,  from  der  hintern  Hub,  aged  52,  who,  with  his  wife,  Susann 
Bertschinger,  aged  54,  and  three  children,  Barbara,  aged  25,  Hans,  aged  23, 
and  Adelheit,  aged  20,  also  left  in  1738. 

V.  Also  Gottfried  Scherer,  also  from  der  hintern  Hub,  aged  27,  and  his  wife, 

Elisabeth  Huber,  aged  30,  who  however,  had  no  children,  left  in  the  same 
year. 

VI.  Finally  Hans  Ulrich  Hagenbucher,  of  Hiiniken,  aged  41,  who,  with  his  wife, 
Barbara  Frauenfelder,  of  the  same  age,  and  three  children,  Elsbeth,  aged  13, 
Margareth,  aged  10,  and  Magdalena,  aged  2,  left  here  for  Carolina  June  14, 
1743,  because  he  had  been  severely  punished,  at  Kyburg,  in  the  previous 
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68  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS    IN   THE 

spring  for  blasphemous  speeches  and  in  addition  to  that  had  been  obliged 
to  hear  from  the  pulpit  a  sermon  expressly  directed  against  him,  and  con 
sequently  was  ashamed  to  live  longer  among  the  people  here. 
I  received  the  circular  on  Good  Friday  morning  and  am  sending  it  on  before 

noon  with  many  greetings  to  Pfungen. 

Pfungen  has  not  lost  anyone  to  the  new-found  land  except  Ragula  Eberhart, 

an  unmarried  wench,  who  died  in  Philadelphia  in  1741.     Moreover,  the  mandate 

of  1741  cannot  be  read  in  public  here  because  the  heirs  of  pastor  Schellenberg, 

deceased,  have  not  left  it  in  our  hands. 

With  many  greetings  to  the  Honorable  Board 

No.  57.  SOME  YEARS  AGO  THERE  LEFT  THE  PARISH  OF  NIEDER- 
HASSLEN  FOR  CAROLINA,  not  without  official  consent  and  per 
mission,  the  following  families  from  Nider-Hasslen: 

Heinrich  Volkhart  who  was  baptized  March  8,  1691. 
Elsbeth  Schiitz,  of  Bachs,  baptized  October  6,  1695. 
Their  children  were: 

Hanss,  September  18,  1717. 

Felix,  November  14,  1723. 

Margreth,  September  16,  1725. 

Heinrich,  June  27,  1728. 

Hans  Heinrich,  October  30,  1729. 

Anna,  April  5,  1739. 

Some  years  later  the  following  family  also  left  Niderhasslen,  also  not  without 
the  knowledge  and  official  consent  of  our  revered  superiors.     They  had  previously 
moved  here  from  Ober-Embrach. 
Hanss  Conrad  Miiller,  tailor. 
Ragula  Bosshart. 

N.B.     They  took    with    them    four    daughters,  the    youngest  still    in    the 
cradle,  but  their  names  have  been  forgotten  since  their  departure. 

Also  Hanss  Froli,  son  of  Ulrich  Froli,  baptized  November  6,  1718,  left  as  a 
hired  hand,  Anno  1738. 

Niderhasslen,  April  3,  1744.  Written  in  conformance  with 

official  orders  by 

HANSS  CASPAR  USTERI,  Pastor. 

No.  58.  FROM  OBERGLATT,  according  to  the  report  of  the  pastor, 
the  following  persons  have  emigrated  to  Carolina  or  Penn 
sylvania: 

Anno  1739 

Two  daughters  of  Hans  Gassmann,  deceased. 

1.  Catharina,  born  February  9,  1717. 

2.  Anna,  born  October  5,  1721. 

Anno  1743 

1.  Hans  Darer,  carpenter,  born  October  2,  1692. 

2.  His  wife,  Dorothea  Bertschi,  born  1694. 

3.  Hans  Ulrich  Brunner,  son  of  the  smith,  born  October  7,  1713. 

4.  His  wife,  Barbel  Kern,  of  Bulach,  born  March  12,  1712. 

5.  Chilion  Maag,  son  of  Chili  Maag,  deceased,  born  January  II,  1722. 

6.  Hans  Bertschi,  son  of  Felix,  deceased,  born  November  24,  1720. 

7.  Maria  Marqualder,  daughter  of  Melchior,  born  July  2,  1719. 

8.  Elssbeth  Bertschi,  daughter  of  Hans  Bertschi,  of  Hofstetten,  born  January 

24,  1723.  Attested:  JOHANN  CASPAR  HEGI,  Pastor  in  Oberglatt. 


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No.  59.     OBERWINTERTHUR 

Greetings  from  the  Source  of  Salvation.     Most  Revered,  Most  Learned  Brethren, 

Beloved  in  the  Lord: 

Yesterday  evening  the  inclosed  communication  concerning  the  emigration 
of  our  beloved  parishioners  reached  me.  You  will  read  for  yourselves  what  our 
honored  and  solicitous  Superiors  desire  from  us  all, — and  that  without  delay, 
I  ask  you  therefore,  to  send  this  circular  on  as  soon  as  possible,  and  to  set  to 
work  upon  it  immediately,  and  to  send  me  the  document  on  a  clean  half  sheet 
of  paper  so  that  each  can  send  it  to  his  neighbor  and  all  can  be  sent  to  the  par 
sonage  at  Winterthur,  from  whence  I  shall  have  them  collected.  I  am  sorry 
that  this  request  has  to  be  made  in  this  busy  Holy  Week.  I  beg  you  again  not 
to  delay  with  it.  With  God's  blessing  and  hearty  salutations  to  the  brethren, 

Committing  myself  under  God's  grace  to  your  love,  I  remain, 

My  honored  and  revered  brethren's  humble  servant, 

March  23,  1744.  SALOMON  ZIEGLER,  Pastor  in  Oberwinterthur. 

WINTERTHUR,  WULFLINGEN,  FELDHEIM,  SEUZACH,  HETLINGEN,  HENGART,  DORF,. 

FLACH,  BERG,  BUCK,  NEFTENBACH,  PFUNGEN,  DATLIKON,  RORBAS, 

EMBRACH,  LUFINGEN,  BRUTTEN,  Toss,  WINTERTHUR,  CALLED 

OBERWINTERTHUR 

WINTERTHUR  does  not  need  the  circular,  for  no  one  is  thinking  of  emigrating 
from  the  country,  and  in  such  case  the  magistrate  would  have  to  speak  with  the 
citizens.  We  send  this  with  many  greetings  to  the  good  pastor  at  Wylflingen. 

WULFLINGEN.  From  the  beginning  I  know  of  about  3  persons  who  have 
emigrated  to  Carolina,  one  single  unmarried  workman,  Christof  Bosshart  from 
the  Thai,  born  the  31.  June,  1717,  a  shoe-maker's  boy,  who  was  persuaded  by 
some  people  from  Blumetshalden  from  the  parish  of  Pfungen,  who  paid  all  his 
traveling  expenses.  He  followed  his  mother  and  brother  who  had  gone  before 
him.  I  know  of  none  who  desire  to  travel  at  present.  I  received  the  circular  at 
night  of  the  23.,  and  am  sending  it  with  my  enclosure  the  morning  of  the  24th, 
with  respectful  greetings. 

FELDEN.  A  year  ago  two  persons  left  here  with  an  official  pass.  Hans 
Ulrich  Freyhofer,  a  weaver,  thirty  years  of  age;  and  Verena  Freyhofer,  his  niece, 
twenty-four  years  of  age,  together  with  two  relatives  of  theirs  from  the  parish 
of  Elg,  at  the  request  of  a  cousin  who  lived  in  Germantown  in  Pennsylvania,  who 
has  gained  considerable  means  and  has  no  children.  I  received  letters  from  them 
two  weeks  ago  saying  that  they  had  arrived  safely  after  a  difficult  and  dangerous 
trip.  They  advised  no  one  to  undertake  this  journey  unless  it  was  necessary,  for 
on  their  ship  and  one  other,  over  200  Swiss  people  died  because  they  could  not 
endure  the  sea-sickness.  They  reported  further,  that  if  anyone  is  sick  upon  his 
arrival  he  is  not  permitted  to  leave  the  ship,  so  that  many  die  in  the  harbor  because 
of  poor  care.  They  also  report  that  the  present  war  has  made  the  trip  dangerous. 
Because  of  this  report  many  have  been  kept  back  who  otherwise  were  intending 
to  follow  them. 

Received  this  circular,  March  24,  9  in  the  morning,  and  sent  it  at  10  to  the 
neighboring  Seuzach. 

SEUZACH.  A  year  ago  Jacob  Mtiller,  called  Saxer,  aged  40,  with  his  wife 
Barbara  Fritschi  of  Hettlingen,  and  three  children,  Heinrich,  aged  13,  Martha, 
aged  ii,  Jacob,  aged  7,  left  for  Carolina  against  all  my  expostulations.  Only  a 
short  time  ago  a  young  unmarried  man  of  35  years  of  age,  who  is  working  at 
Huntwangen,  Jacob  Ackert,  by  name,  has  presented  himself  to  me  with  a  similar 
intention,  and  contrary  to  my  advice,  because  of  the  good  reports  which  have 
come  back  from  there  again  recently,  which  induce  many  other  people  from  his 


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neighborhood  and  the  country  around  it  to  leave  for  another  land,  has  resolved 
to  start  thither  in  company  with  them,  without  heeding  the  fact  that  his  own 
father,  who  is  still  alive,  advises  him  against  it  and  refuses  his  consent.  The 
former  and  this  latter  (especially  the  former)  are,  to  be  sure,  poor  people  who  have 
persuaded  themselves,  among  other  things,  that  they  cannot  lose  much  either 
way  etc.,  etc.  I  do  not  know  whether  I  should  add  to  these  another  man  who 
was  driven  out  of  the  country  a  year  ago  because  of  his  debts,  and  who  also 
has  reported  that  he  is  going  there,  but  who  is  still  said  to  be  staying  near  Basel, 
Sc.  Christen  Waaser,  aged  40,  with  his  wife  Barbara  Kleiner,  and  a  boy,  Jacob 
Waser,  aged  5. 

Received  this  circular  at  n  o'clock  and  sent  it  at  12,  to  the  neighboring 
Reverend  Dean,  Pastor  Hetling. 

HETLINGEN.     On  the  3Oth  of  June  the  following  persons  left  here  for  the 
West  Indies,  whether  to  the  South  or  North  they  did  not  know  themselves. 
Franz  Miiller,  aged  33. 
Anna  Herter,  his  wife,  aged  37. 
Children: 

Kungold,  aged  10  years. 

Anna,  aged  6  years. 

Franz,  aged  I  year. 

Margretha  Kundig,  Franz  Miiller's  mother,  born  in  Volken,  aged  63. 
Jacob  Miiller  Egliss,  aged  38,  unmarried.     As  far  as  I  know  these  are  the  first 
persons,  who  have  left  here  as  colonists. 

HENKERT.  As  far  as  concerns  the  emigrants  to  Carolina:  Before  the  sacred 
festival  days  are  over,  shall  send  a  separate  list  of  these.  At  this  time  I  report 
merely,  that  last  autumn  a  letter  was  received  from  such  an  emigrant  out  of  my 
parish,  dated  London  in  England,  in  which  he  makes  clear  the  misery  of  such 
emigrants,  indicating  that  everything  was  true  which  the  pastor  had  previously 
told  him,  moreover  that  they  had  been  wretchedly  misled  by  the  false  statements 
of  other  people,  etc.,  and  he  threatened  also,  if  at  all  possible,  to  return  home  with 
his  wife  and  child. 

People  are  talking  now  of  another  Carolina  to  which  some  wish  to  go,  saying 
more  of  Schlesien,3  or  Schlessingen  as  the  peasants  pronounce  it,  and  allow 
themselves  to  dream  very  favorable  things  about  such  a  land. 

No.  60.     FROM  OBERWINTERTHUR  THERE  WENT  TO  CAROLINA  WITH 
THE  PERMISSION  OF  THE  HIGH  AUTHORITIES 

Anna  Tobler,  widow,  with  two  sons,  Heinrich,  born  in  1726,  and  Caspar,  born 

in  1729. 

Anno  1743,  with  permission,  for  Pennsylvania, 
Jacob  Sporer,  a  boy,  born  1719. 

Hans  Heinrich  Rugstul  and  his  wife  with  one  son,  Samuel,  19  years  old. 
Jacob  Schupisser,  bleacher,  with  a  five  year  old  son. 
From  Stadel,  Heinrich  Bryner,  a  youth,  26  years  old. 
From  Riittlingen,  Ulrich  Ehrensperger  with  his  wife  and  five  children:    Clephe, 

born  1721,  Anna,  1723,  Johannes,  1724,  Lisabeth,  1726,  Ulrich,  1728. 
Total  1 6  souls.     God  preserve  them! 
March  25,  1744.  Pastor  ZIEGLER  in  Oberwinterthur . 

3  Colonists  were  being  solicited  by  Prussia  for  her  province  of  Silesia,  newly 
acquired  from  Austria.  A.B.F. 


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No.  61.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  HAVE  LEFT  THE  CHRISTIAN 
PARISH  OF  DETWYL  FOR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Anno  1743 

1.  Jacob  von  Tobel,  from  Willikon,  baptized  June  9,  1679.     He  was  before  this 

a  churchwarden.  Finally  he  gave  over  to  his  three  sons  his  estate,  and  took 
from  them  besides  a  quantity  of  vines  and  grazing  for  a  cow,  for  eight 
years  annually  80  florins  rental.  He  had  a  second  wife,  Elsbeth  Frey  from 
Uster.  This  man,  without  the  knowledge  of  his  people  or  of  anyone  else, 
left  Sunday  morning  May  12,  1743.  His  people  estimated  that  he  took  with 
him  about  65  florins. 

2.  Adjutant  Hans  Rudolf  Egolff,  baptized  at  Egg,  in  1678.     He  had  with  the 

knowledge  of  the  authorities  of  Stafa  sold  his  fine  little  estate  and  after 
paying  many  debts  and  the  emigration  tax  of  21  florins,  8  shillings,  in 
opposition  to  the  governor's  and  my  kindly  admonitions  left  here,  with 
his  second  wife  Elsbetha  Pfister  from  Uetikon,  baptized  January  n,  1692, 
and  his  legitimate  son  by  his  first  wife,  deceased,  Hans  Rudolff,  baptized 
July  31,  1729.  Left  on  Monday,  June  24,  1743. 

Total  of  all  persons  who  went  to  Pennsylvania  4. 

Attested  by  most  obediently,  Pastor  SALOMON  HIRZEL. 

Otweil,  April  6,  1744. 

NO.    62.      OSSLINGEN 

Highly  Revered,  Learned  and  Honorable  Mr.  Dean: 

In  reply  to  the  command  and  mandate  which  has  come  from  my  gracious 
master  and  superior,  in  respect  to  those  who  have  gone  into  the  so-called  new 
found-land,  I  notify  you  most  dutifully  and  properly  that  at  the  present  date 
there  is  no  one  in  my  parish  who  wishes  to  commit  such  folly.  A  year  ago  Alex 
ander  Haussrad  with  his  wife  and  their  children  wanted  to  leave,  but  he  returned 
poor  as  a  beggar,  gave  over  his  wife  and  three  children  as  a  burden  to  the  parish, 
while  he  treacherously  and  secretly  went  into  military  service  in  Savoy,  which  is 
all  that  has  been  reported  in  regard  to  this  questionable  affair.  I  have  the  honor 
to  subscribe  myself,  with  the  highest  conceivable  respect,  the  Dean's  life-long 
most  humble  servant, 

A.  BURKHARD. 

Osslingen,  April  3,  1744. 

No.  63.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  LEFT  THE  PARISH  OTTEN- 

BACH   TO    GO   TO    PENNSYLVANIA 

From  Ottenbach 

Hans  Ulrich  Hegetschweiler,  Heinrich's  son. 

Hans  Jacob  Sydler,  Marx's  son. 

Anna  Hegetschweiler,  deceased  Heinrich's  daughter. 

From  Wolsen 
Caspar  Frey,  Felix's  son. 

From  Ober-Lunneren 
Heinrich,  and  Hans  Bar,  brothers,  Heinrich's  sons. 

From  Under- Lunneren 
Johannes  Gut,  deceased  Heinrich's  son. 


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No.  64.     DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  THREE  FAMILIES  THAT  LEFT  THE 
PARISH  OTTELFINGEN  TO  GO  TO  CAROLINA 

Anno  1738  in  August  there  left  the  following  families: 

Parents: 

Born:  1697,  Heinrich  Weltj,  from  Poplizen. 
"       1693,  Barbara,  from  Reiitj. 

Children: 
1726,  Rudolff. 
"       1727,  Hans. 
"       1729,  Anna. 
"       1732,  Clein-Anna. 
Anno  1743,  May  3d,  there  left  the  following  families: 

Parents: 

Born:  1711,  Hans  Meyer. 
"       1715,  Elsbeth  Bopp. 

Children: 

"       1735,  Elsbeth. 
"      1736,  Barbara. 
Anno  1743  in  May  there  left  the  following  families: 

Parents : 
Born:  1713,  Caspar  Meyer. 

1716,  Anna  from  Reiitj. 

Children: 
1740,  Caspar. 
"       1742,  Anna. 

No.  65.     FROM  THE  PARISH  PFAFFIKON  IN  THE  SUMMER  OF  1733 
THE  FOLLOWING  LEFT  FOR  THE  NEW  WORLD 

Heinrich  Ernj,  from  Pfaffikon,  baptized  April  10,  1707,  and  Susanna  Brunner, 

his  wife,  together  with  a  child:  Babelj,  aged  2  years. 

Anno  1734  there  also  went  there: 
A.  Magdalena  Mantzin,  the  deceased  Hans  Hermetschweiler's  wife,  with  the 

following  children: 

Annelj,  baptized,  January  7,  1714. 
A.  Magdalena,  September  29,  1715. 
Babelj,  November  21,  1723. 

Margreth,  October        2,  1725. 

Regelj,  October      28,  1727. 

Heinrich,  June  3,  1731. 

April  25,  1744.  Attested,  JOHN  PEER,  Pastor. 

No.  66.  LIST  OF  ALL  PERSONS,  WHO  SINCE  1734  WENT  OUT  OF  THE 
PARISH  RAFFZ,  THUS  LEAVING  THEIR  HOME  AND  FATHER 
LAND: 

1738,  September.     According  to  the  report  received,  the  following  persons 
left,  with  the  purpose  of  going  to  Carolina: 
Hans  Ulrich  Angst,  son  of  Andersen,  and 
Barbara  Sigerist,  his  wife.     These  have  taken  with  them 
Johannes  Sigerist,  a  ten-year  old  boy,  the  brother  of  the  wife. 
Hans  Jacob  Graaf,  shoe-maker,  and 
Anna  Schweizer,  his  wife.     These  left  with  5  children. 


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Barbara  Meyer,  Jacob  Meyer's  legitimate  daughter,  born  August  21,  1707. 

Total  II  persons. 

N.B.  These  left  my  parish  of  Rafz,  and  I  know  no  more  to  say  about  them, 
except  that  up  to  the  present  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  out  what  destination 
they  reached. 

1741,  April  19.     Franz  Neuchum,  the  joiner,  born  1694,  left  the  country  with 
his  oldest  daughter. 

Verena,  his  daughter,  born  January  7,  1725. 

N.B.  He  has  left  behind  his  wife  with  threa  small  children,  because  he  was 
angry  that  the  meagre  means  of  his  oldest  daughter,  whom  he  was  taking  along, 
were  not  permitted  to  pass  through.  I  do  not  know  of  what  those  means  con 
sisted.  This  man,  so  a  report  was  received  concerning  him,  died  a  few  days  after 
his  arrival  in  the  capital  city  of  Philadelphia.  The  remaining  wife  and  children 
are  being  supported  by  alms. 

Total  2  persons. 

1743.  May  16.     The  following  left  Rafz  with  the  intention  of  going  to  Penn 
sylvania  : 

Hans  Ulrich  Baggenstosz,  mason,  born  1700. 
Susanna  Baur,  his  wife,  born  1699. 
Children: 

Verena,  1725. 

Hans  Ulrich,  1726. 

Johannes,  1734. 

Susanna,  1737. 

Heinrich,  1738. 

Hans  Jacob,  1741. 

In  addition  to  this  there  left  with  this  mason: 

Franz  Graaf,  the  deceased  mason's  son,  born  1733.     This  boy  was  the  above- 
named  Baggenstoss's  deceased  sister's  son. 

Catharina  Neuchum,  1718. 1  Franz  Neuchum  the  shoe-maker's  daughters  from 
Verena  Neuchum,  1720.       J      Sulgen. 
Johannes  Reutschman,  deceased  Conrad's  son  from  Rafz,  1716. 

Total  leaving  in  1743:  12  persons. 

N.B.     Of  these  nothing  has  been  heard  up  to  date. 

1744,  March  31.     There  left  from   Rafz,   wishing  to  go  to  Pennsylvania  the 
following: 

Franz  Neuchum,  born  1710. 

A         c.     .      ,         ~,  , ,  ,  ,       ,.       .,     ,          I  N.B.     These  families  could  have 

Anna  biggin,  trom  Glattelden,  his  wile,  born  r 

1705- 
Children: 

Verena,  1734. 

Heinrich,  1735. 
Verena  Neuchum,  Hans  Graaf 's,  the  bailiff's  widow,  born  1704. 

N.B.     This  poor  widow  with  her  children  has  very  little  money  with  her, 
relies  upon,  besides  God,  her  brother  Franz  Neuchum  and  her  brother-in-law, 
John  Neuchum,  who  have  promised  her  all  needed  assistance.     Did  not  give  heed 
to  any  warnings. 
Children: 

Barbara,  1729. 

Franz,  1734. 

Johannes,  1737. 

Hans  Jacob,  1740. 

Hans  Ulrich,  1742. 

Johannes  Neuchum,  wagon-maker,  1697. 
Susanna  Neuchum,  his  wife,  1698. 

N.B.     This  family  might  have  found  an  honest  living  at  home. 


subsisted  very  well  at  home. 


74  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

\ 
Children: 

Verena,  1732. 

Heinrich,  1735 

Johannes,  1737. 
Susanna  Schweizer,  deceased  Hans  Baggenstoss's  widow,  1700. 

N.B.     Also  this  widow  might  have  had  a  modest  subsistence. 
Children: 

Hans  Jacob,  1731. 

Johannes,  1736. 

Hans  Ulrich  Sigerist,  called  Melchers,  1698. 
Elisabeth  Baur,  his  wife,  1706. 

Barbara,  1734. 

N.B.     The  needed  subsistence  was  not  lacking  also  in  the  case  of  this  family. 

Furthermore: 
Hans  Graaf  Lehmens,  1697,  weaver. 

N.B.     This  poor  man,  who  has  been  able  to  take  very  little  money  along, 
goes  away  with  his  large  family,  forced  by  necessity. 
Elsbeth  Frey,  his  wife,  1698. 
Children: 

Elsbeth,  1726. 

Barbara,  1728. 

Heinrich,  1730. 

Hans  Ulrich,  1733. 

Hans  Jacob,  1737. 

Dorothea,  1741. 

Hans  Sigerist,  son  of  Hans  Jo  lis,  born  1705. 
Anna  Wildberger,  from  Neiikirch,  his  wife,  1709. 

N.B.     This  man  has  had  respectable  means,  but  has  been  a  poor  manager, 
and  as  a  result  could  not  for  long  have  kept  up.     Therefore  he  was  also  ill-provided 
at  his  departure. 
Children : 

Hans  Jacob,  1731. 

Franz,  1738. 

Anna,  1740. 

Susanna, 1742. 

Grown  up-unmarried  children 

Heinrich  Meyer,  tailor,  Heinrich  Mejer's  son,  1724. 

Heinrich  Baur,  carpenter,  the  shoe-maker  Jacob  Baur's  son,  1724. 

Hans  Conrad  Hanseler,  deceased  Kestl's  son,  1722. 

Unmarried  daughters 

Verena  Graaf,  deceased  Hans  Jacob's  daughter,  1716. 

Catharina  Neiichum,  deceased  Salomon  Neiichum's  daughter,  1723. 

Total  of  all  of  those  who  from  1738  up  to  the  present  date  have  left  Rafz — 
66  persons. 

The  truth  of  the  above  attested  April  i,  1744,  by  JOHN  HEINRICH  HOLZHALB, 
Pastor  at  Rafz. 

N.B.  These  last  named  grown-up  boys  and  daughters,  have,  to  be  sure, 
left  with  the  above,  but  not  exactly  with  the  intention  to  settle  in  Pennsylvania, 
but  to  travel,  in  part  supporting  themselves  by  their  trades,  in  order  to  gain 
experience,  or  in  part  being  people  of  little  means,  to  seek  their  fortunes  elsewhere, 
if  possible,  and  they  entertain  the  hope,  that  if  they  return  as  free  men  and  with 
good  testimonials  of  their  behavior,  they  may  return  without  prejudice  to  their 
landrights. 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       75 

No.  67.     REGENSPERG.     From  this  parish  there  have  gone  to 

Carolina,  etc. 

i 

Johannes  Bachofen,  glazier,  aged  22  years. 
His  pregnant  wife  was  left  behind. 
The  departure  took  place  September  18,   1734.     On  the  way  he  changed  his 

mind  and  entered  the  French  military  service,  in  which  he  died,  in  the  spring, 

1735- 

2 

Felix  Huber,  glazier,  aged  37  years. 
Anna  Miiller,  his  wife,  aged  39. 
Children: 

Catharina,  aged  5. 

The  departure  took  place  September  8,  1738.  Nothing  has  been  heard  about 
these  since. 

3 

Jacob  Schwenk,  shoemaker,  aged  46. 
Catharina  Belz,  his  wife,  aged  42. 
Children: 

Anna,  aged  5. 

Elisabetha,  aged  4. 

Anna-Marja,  aged  2. 

With  them  there  travelled  also  Esther  Schwenk,  the  daughter  of  Johannes 
Schwenk,  the  tailor,  aged  17  years.  The  departure  occurred  April  4,  1741. 
Concerning  these,  their  arrival  in  London  and  prospective  sailing  for  Pennsyl 
vania,  but  beyond  this  nothing  has  been  heard,  except  that  recently,  without 
good  foundation  it  was  reported  that  they  had  arrived  in  Pennsylvania,  and  that 
one  of  the  children  had  died. 

Total  of  those  that  left — 10. 

Attested  by  JOH.  JACOB  WOLFF,  Pastor  in  Regensperg. 

March  31,  1744. 

No.   68.     EXTRACT  FROM   PASTOR  AND   CHAMBERLAIN  VOGLER'S 
COMMUNICATION  FROM  RICHTERSSCHWEIL 

As  far  as  concerns  those  who  left  for  West  India,  there  left  here  for  Penn 
sylvania  about  thirty  years  ago  several  by  the  name  of  Hohn  and  Wisz,  who 
wrote  once  or  twice  without  much  exaltation,  and  part  of  them  have  died. 

Rodolph  Bachman,  son  of  Rodolf,  is  said  to  have  gone  to  Carolina  about 
five  years  ago,  but  we  know  nothing  of  him. 

In  the  week  following  Whitsuntide  there  also  went  thither  two  by  the  name 
of  Huber,  and  one  Tanner,  with  wife  and  children.  The  latter  has  six  children, 
five  sons  and  one  daughter,  among  them  an  infant  three  weeks  old,  and  the  oldest 
twelve  years. 

Several  times  the  magistrate  and  myself  spoke  to  him  earnestly,  whereupon 
he  replied:  He  could  not  ward  off  bankruptcy,  that  he  wanted  to  sell  his  pos 
sessions  and  if  anything  remained,  to  stay  at  home,  which,  however,  he  did  not 
keep,  and  said:  "He  could  now  not  do  otherwise." 

The  carpenter  Huber  has  taken  eight  children  with  him  together  with  his 
wife,  among  them  seven  sons,  the  oldest  14,  the  youngest  }/i  year  old.  His 
brother  Jacob  Huber  has  left  with  his  wife  and  three  children,  did  not  ask  leave, 
his  boy  is  10,  one  daughter  4,  the  other  i  year  old.  They  are  people  who  could 
no  longer  sustain  themselves  with  their  work,  and  nothing  could  be  done  with 


76  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN  THE 

them,  whatever  you  might  say,  their  reply  always  remained:  They  had  to  work 
here  day  and  night  and  even  then  could  not  get  their  daily  bread,  and  were 
therefore  forced  to  seek  it  elsewhere. 

Still  another  Bachman  is  said  to  have  gone  to  Pennsylvania  before  the  war, 
and  to  have  died  there. 

Richtenschweil,  May  15,  1744.          Attested,  JOH.  FELIX  VOGLER,  Pastor. 

NO.    69.      RORBASS 

From  this  parish  there  went  to  Carolina  in  the  year  1738,  the  following 
parties: 

Hans  Conradt  Rietiker,  mower,  aged  49. 
Verena  Hiltibrand,  his  wife,  aged  46. 
And  their  children: 

Hans  Jacob,  aged  16. 

Jacobli,  aged  10. 

Caspar,  aged  6. 

The  same  year: 

Jacob  Rietiker,  tailor,  aged  47. 
Barbel  Diinki,  aged  41. 
And  their  little  daughter: 

Margareth,  aged  9. 
The  same  year: 

Heinrich  Rietiker,  sexton,  aged  38. 
Ragula  Landert,  aged  36. 
And  their  children: 

Heinrich,  aged  7. 

Catharina,  aged  3. 

Barbara,  aged  Yi- 

Furthermore  there  left  anno  1738  at  the  end  of  August,  from  Rorbasz 
to  Carolina: 

Conradt  Fritschi,  weaver  from  Freyenstein,  aged  38. 
Ragel  Hiltibrand,  his  wife,  aged  33. 
And  their  children: 

Heinrich,  aged  9. 

Babeli,  aged  7. 

Heirechli,  aged  5. 

Elsbeethli,  aged  2. 

Rodolf,  aged  3  months. 

The  same  year: 

Conradt  Diinki,  called  Alpen-Baur,  aged  60.     Widower. 
And  his  children: 

Heinrich,  aged  25. 

Anna,  aged  22. 

Total  of  all  who  in  1738  left  for  Carolina:  23. 

Furthermore  in  the  spring  1743,  from  Rorbasz  for  Carolina,  the  following 
parties  left: 

Jacob  Diinki,  the  above  alpine  farmer's  son,  aged  36. 
Anna  Dandert,  his  wife,  aged  34. 
And  their  children: 

Heinrich,  aged  5. 

Jacobli,  aged  4. 

Cathari,  aged  2. 

The  same  year: 
Hans  Jacob  Schurter,  son  of  Krauszli  Hans,  unmarried,  aged  25. 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       77 

The  same  year: 

Heinrich  Fritschi,  son  of  the  old  castle-farmer  from  Teiiffen,  aged  41. 
Anna  Brandli,  his  wife,  aged  39. 
And  their  children: 

Clephee  Babli,  aged  14. 

Vreeneli,  aged  12. 

Anneli,  aged  7. 

The  total  of  all  those  persons  gone  away  in  1743 — 11. 

Grand  total  of  all  who  left  with  my  knowledge  but  against  my  will,  and 
against  my  earnest  protests:  34.  Of  all  of  those  not  a  word  has  been  heard  since 
their  departure.  The  Gracious  Dean  need  not  fear  an  exodus  this  time. 

Rorbass,  March  27,  1744.  Pastor  WOLFF. 

No.    70.      RUMLANG 

From  this  parish  there  went  to  Carolina  in  the  year  1734: 
Rudolff  Weidmann,  a  tailor,  born  1699. 
Anna  Maria  Waber,  from  Zurich,  his  wife,  born  1711. 
Children: 

Judith,  born  1732. 

This  was  a  poor  family,  the  husband  did  not  understand  his  trade,  and  there 
was  the  greatest  anxiety  that  they  might  become  a  burden  to  the  authorities. 

Anno  1735 

These  wanted  to  go  to  Carolina : 
Heinrich  Meyer,  a  mason,  born  1703. 
Elisabetha  Schmid,  his  wife,  born  1700. 
Children: 

Heinrich,  born  1729. 

Hans  Heinrich,  born  1731. 

This  household,  however,  got  only  as  far  as  Kreuzach  in  the  Margravate  of 
Baden,  where  they  settled,  and  thank  God  live  happily,  and  in  the  year  1738  were 
increased  with  a  son  Tobias.  The  reason  why  they  left  their  fatherland  was 
hard  times  and  debts. 

Anno  1736 

Left  for  the  new  country: 
Jacob  Gering,  born  1700. 
Anna  Cappeler,  his  wife,  born  1698. 
Children: 

Catharina,  born  1725. 

Heinrich,  born  1731. 

This  family  was  also  very  poor  and  the  father  was  almost  blind. 

They  took  with  them  their  oldest  son  Johannes,  born  1725.  The  two  younger 
sons  Hans  Conrad,  born  1727,  and  Heinrich,  born  1729,  they  left  at  home.  But 
after  this  man,  like  a  real  good-for-nothing,  had  spent  all  his  money,  that  he  had 
intended  for  the  trip  to  Carolina,  consisting  of  about  150  florins,  and  got  to 
Frankfurt,  he  went  to  Berlin,  according  to  reliable  reports,  and  lives  now  upon  a 
Royal  Prussian  colony.  The  son  Conrad  left  not  before  1743  with  a  party  for 
Carolina.  The  younger,  good-for-nothing  in  body  and  soul,  is  bound  in  service 
for  twenty  years  in  the  governmental  hospital. 

Anno  1743 

There  left  for  Carolina,  with  permission  of  the  most  revered  governors: 
Caspar  Hinnen,  born  1709. 
Elsbeth  Widmer,  his  wife,  born  1707. 


78  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Children: 

Caspar,  born  1736. 

Anna  Barbara,  born  1738. 

With  these  there  also  left : 

Heinrich  Hinnen,  the  unmarried  brother  of  the  above,  born  1714. 
Rudolff  Schmid,  the  deceased  Fridlis'  son,  born  1722. 
Also  the  above-mentioned  Conrad  Haszler. 

There  left  also,  without  anyone's  knowledge: 
Caspar  Waber,  a  table-maker  by  trade,  born  1705. 
Margareth  Gering,  his  wife,  born  1705. 
Son:  Johannes,  born  1734. 

This  family  was  compelled  to  leave  on  account  of  poverty  into  which  they 
got  through  their  own  indolence  and  dissoluteness.  They  are  settled,  it  is  said, 
on  Wiirtemberg  lands. 

Attested  by  most  humbly  HANS  HEINRICH  VOLLENWEIDER,  Pastor. 

April  4,  1744. 

No.  71.     THERE  LEFT  FOR  CAROLINA  OUT  OF  THE  PARISH 

RUSSICON 

Hansz  Ulrich  Ringger. 
Margreth  Boszhardt,  his  wife. 
Children: 

Jacob,  baptized  September  8,  1737. 

Hans  Jaco,  baptized,  September  27,  1739. 

Attested,  as  per  circular:  PEL.  NUSCH,  Dec. 

NO.    72.       SCHLIEREN.       (SEE    PLATES    3-7) 

Most  Honorable,  Learned  and  Most  Revered  Dean: 

Because  I  have  the  honor,  as  a  humble  member  of  the  chapter  of  Zurich, 
to  be  remembered  with  the  circular,  but  as  far  as  mandates  and  decrees  are  con 
cerned  cannot  follow  them,  being  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  County  of  Baden, — 
so  that  many  times,  though  being  so  near  the  city,  and  so  near  to  me  the  author 
itative  mandates  are  read,  I  am  at  a  loss  what  to  do  in  regard  to  this  or  that 
command;  whereas  a  list  of  those  of  the  parish  in  war  service,  as  also  of  those 
who  have  gone  to  North  America,  who  have  gone  either  with  permission,  or  at 
least  with  passes  from  the  governor  of  Baden,  in  opposition  to  my  public  and 
private  repeated  warnings  and  arguments  well  founded,  is  asked  for  by  the 
circular,  I  have  thought  it  to  be  of  some  service  to  prepare  a  list  of  those  who  since 
ten  years  have  gone  to  Carolina  and  Pennsylvania  as  into  another  land,  "cut 
off  from  the  righteous,"  4  with  wife  and  children. 

I.  Anno  1735,  Conrad  Riitschi,  aged  37,  with  his  wife  Barbara  Lips,  aged  38, 
and  two  children,  the  oldest  n  years,  the  other  9  years  old.  Concerning 
this  family  the  most  Rev.  Dean  has  read  the  letter  that  has  come  to  me. 
II.  April  7,  1736,  there  left  the  sometime  commissioner  Caspar  Miiller,  aged  50, 
together  with  his  wife,  Margareth  Zimmerli,  born  in  Arburg,  with  three 
young  children.  A  son  and  daughter  remained  behind. 

III.  May  15,  1743,  there  left  here  amid  pitiable  lamentations  of  several  mothers, 
accompanied  by  a  large  crowd  of  people  as  far  as  Fahrli,  the  following 
families: 

4  This  quotation  appears  in  Hebrew  in  the  original  manuscript,  photographs 
of  which  are  herein  reproduced  (Plates  3-7). 


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P.S.    Ich  habe  vor  8  wwohen  in  circa  an  der  1'etJbachen  Predige*  in 
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Verseiehnus  derjpnigen.welohe  'aufl  der  Pfarr  SchaffllBtorf  seit  1734 
weggereiaet.willens   in  Ar.eriaa. 

Setaufft. 

1738. den  28ten  Aufat-  Hans  -erkj  )Copuliert          ll.Febr.1683. 

monat  von  Schsffllstorf .      Lieabeth  EaUffeler   )den  S.Zbrie     16.7br.B77. 

1702. 
Kinder: 
Barbara 
liar  gar  etna 


10.Febr.1715. 
19.Itr.1717. 


Ihr  srstgebohrner  Sohn. 


Yon  Oberwenlngen. 
Von  Sohljxlken. 


1741. 18. April. 
Von  Obenrenlngen. 


1743, 21. April. 

Auch  von  Oberwenir.gen. 


Heinrlch  r.erkj)  Cop.  11. Jan.  28,Jan.l7«3. 

Verena  Pusher  )    17E9.  8.Pebr.l705. 

Kinder: 

Jacob  26.Jun.1729. 

Kudolff  29.Jul.1731. 

Anna  l.Bbr.1723. 

Begula  7. Aug. 1735. 

Verena  I.Jan. 1738. 

Susanna, Hans  Surbere  sel.Toch-  30.Jui.1713. 
ter. 

Helnrich.Hans  Helnrloh.P.umrcenB 

eel.  Sohn.  17.1'.aj  1716. 


Caspar  Surber    )copuliert  auf  die  5.1£artii    171 

Barbara  llerkj    j&breie  14.!.:erte  7.Anril    1715 
1741. 

Hans .Jacob  iuttweiler-e  Sohn.  ll.7br.1716  . 

Hans, Hans  Beyers   Sohn.  1^.8br.l721. 


Heinrlch   Surter, Jacobs   Sohn.  l^.l!aj   1723. 

Har.s, Jacob  Sobelis   Sohn.  ££.9br.l7££! 
Batharina.Shegaiimer  Duttweilere 

sel.toehter.  28.Jul.1726. 


Ab  den  Klupf . 


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Hans        )   Sohn. 


27.FebiJ.716. 
G.Bbris  1722. 


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Sesoreint  Hone   Jacob  Etrodj.den  £6ten  Kertz  1744. 


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Carol  InajB  abgereieet  elnd. 

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Verreieete   im  AutTueto  1738. 

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SINCE  1 7 -$4" 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       79 

1.  Master   Heinrich   Burkhard,   blacksmith,   aged   27,  and   his  wife   Margareth 

Meylin,  and  two  daughters,  the  oldest  two  years  and  the  other  10  months. 

2.  Goriss  Miiller,  called  Ruff,  aged  46,  with  his  wife  Ester  Schsnkelberger,  and 

three  daughters,  at  8,  3  and  i  years. 

3.  Hans  Miiller,  aged  42.  J       .  , 

„.-...  }    \\itn4sonsand  I  daughter. 

Regula  Muller,  aged  43. 

4.  Heinrich  Muller,  aged  40.  "I 

„       i    •.»  r  with  i  son  and  4  daughters. 

Barbara  Regula  Meyer,  aged  41.  J 

July  7,  1743,  there  left  with  a  certain  Striibj  from  Altstetten  and  his  wife, 
who  had  been  a  serf  at  the  hospital,  my  deceased  sexton's  son,  Hansz  Meye."  and 
Ester  Huber  with  four  infant  sons,  and  a  daughter  n  years  old.  And  Ester 
Meyer,  Conrad  Meyer's  daughter. 

Several  others  had  spoken  of  going,  if  they  had  only  had  the  money  to 
travel  with,  their  mouths  evidently  water  for  the  land  of  indolence  and  plenty. 
(Schlaraffenland.) 

I  beg  also  to  report  to  the  Most  Rev.  Dean  that  several  of  my  young  men 
and  women,  since  they  could  not  during  Lent  'have  their. sport  and  enjoy  them 
selves  in  the  inn  at  Fahrli,  went  to  Engstringen  and  diverted  themselves  there, 
and  about  9  o'clock  at  night  since  they  had  to  be  ferried  across  the  river  Limmat, 
rocked  the  boat  and  most  of  them  had  an  excellent  March  bath;  it  was  a  great 
piece  of  good  fortune  that  no  one  was  drowned. 

These  are  the  beautiful  fruits  of  the  Holy  Week,  of  church  and  Sunday 
festivals.  If  you  try  to  prevent  it,  they  say  that  you  are  too  serious,  too  narrow, 
or  that  you  wish  to  remove  ancient  boundary-stones. 

Without  more  to  say,  I  remain  with  heartfelt  salutation  and  wishes  for  the 
best  of  health  and  blessed  execution  of  your  high  offices, 

Your  etc.  etc., 

Most  obedient, 

Schlieren,  April  3,  1744.  SALOMON  DANIKER,  Pastor. 

P.S.  About  eight  weeks  ago  I  completed  a  letter  to  Mr.  Jacob  Lyschy,5 
preacher  in  Philadelphia,  born  in  Mtillhausen,  in  order  to  inquire  of  him  as  to  the 
condition  of  the  land  and  its  inhabitants.  Whether  an  answer  will  be  received, 
time  will  tell. 

NO.  73.     LIST  OF  THOSE  WHO  LEFT  THE  PARISH  SCHAFFLISTORF 
SINCE  1734,  WITH  THE  INTENTION  OF  GOING  TO  AMERICA 
(SEE  PLATES  8,  9) 

Baptized.  > 

August  28,  1738  Hans  Merkj  \      Married       ("February    11,1683 

From  Schdfflistorf.  Lisabeth  Kauffeler  J  Dec.  5,  1702  \  September  16,  1677 

Children: 

Barbara February    10,  1715 

Margaretha December  19,  1717 

The  first  born  son:  Heinrich  Merkj  \         Married        J  January      28,1703 

Verena  Bucher  /Jan.  n,  1729     \  February      8,  1705 
Children: 

Jacob June  26,  1729 

Rudolff July  29,  1731 

Anna October         i,  1733 

Regula .  .  August          7,  1735 

Verena .  .  January         I,  1738 

8  The  Rev.  Jacob  Lischy  is  mentioned  a  number  of  times  in  Hallesche  Nach- 
richten,  Vol.  I.  He  was  a  minister  of  the  Reformed  Church,  with  friendly  leanings 
toward  the  Moravians.  A.B.F. 


80 


LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS    IN   THE 


From  Oberwenigen. 
From  Schlyniken. 

April  1 8,  1741 
From  Oberu'enigen. 


April  21,  1743 
Also  from  Oberwenigen. 


From  Klupf. 
Total:  22. 


July 


Susanna,  daughter  of  the  deceased 

Hans  Surber 

Heinrich,    son   of   deceased    Hans 

Heinrich  Rummen May  1 7, 

Caspar  Surber   ~|  Married     before  f  March  5, 

Barbara  Merkj  >     leaving,    Mar.-]  April  7, 

14,  1741- 

Hans,  Jacob  Duttweiler's  son September  1 1 , 

Hans,  Hans  Meyer's  son October  12, 

Heinrich  Surber,  Jacob's  son May  17, 

Hans,  Jacob  Zobelis'  son November  22, 

Catharina,     the     deceased     Ehe- 

gaumer  Duttweiler's  daughter.  .  .July  28, 

Jacob  Zobeli  ~|  Deceased  Hans         f  February  23, 

Hans                \      Zobeli's  sons          I  Octcbsr  6, 


30,  1713 


1716 
1719 
1715 

1718 
1721 

1723 
1722 

1726 
1716 

1-22 


Attested,  HANS  JACOB  KARODJ,  March  26,  1744. 


No.  74.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  LEFT  THE  PARISH 

SCHWERZEXBACH    TO    GO    TO    CAROLINA 

Jacob  Diethrich,  VVilhelm  Diethrich's  son,  born  July  19,  1716.  Left  in 
August,  1738. 

Also  Hansz  Ulrich  Blatmann,  born  May  22,  1703,  and  his  wife  Elsbeth  Hoff 
mann  from  Uster,  aged  43  years.  Left  May  2,  1743,  with  five  sons: 

1.  Christophel,        baptized  April  22,  1725. 

2.  Rudolff,  "         July  5,  1733. 

3.  Christoffel,  "         October       25,  I739(?) 

4.  Jacob,  "         February      4,  1738. 

5.  Hans  Heinrich,         "         September  18,  1740. 


No.  75.     OBERWINTERTHUR,  APRIL  12,   1744. 
THE  PARISH  SEEN 


EMIGRANTS  FROM 


Hans  Wysz,  aged  45. 

Els.  Hofman,  his  wife,  aged  35. 

Children: 

Babelj,  aged  18. 

Betelj,      "  16. 

Vre.          "  13. 

Anna,        "  II. 

Els.  "  9. 

Heinrich  Bauer,  aged  45. 
Barbara  Muller,  33. 

Children: 

Heinrich,  aged    5 

Anna,  2 

Urech  Jeglj,  39 

Vre  Brunner,  36 

Children: 

Hans  Urech,      10 

Babelj,  9 


1734 


1742 


Elsbeth    Huggenberger,    aged     18,    un 
married. 

Anna  Ehrensperger,  26. 

Childless  widow. 
Regula  Muller,  left  without  her 

husband,  36 

Hans  Jucker,  36 

his  wife 

Maria  Muller,    31 


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Jacob,  6  Children: 

Hans  Urich  Jeglj,  aged  24  Babelj,  5 

his  wife  Els.  Rosej,     19  Anna,  2 

Jac.  Riiegg,  aged  43 
Barb.  Biichj,  39 
Children: 

Heinrich,  30. 

Jacob,        24. 

Ulrich,       12. 

Konr,         1 1 . 

Caspar,       7. 

No.  76.  LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS,  WHO  SINCE  1734  LEFT  THE 
PARISH  STADEL  FOR  CAROLINA  AND  PENNSYLVANIA,  taken  out 
of  the  registers  kept  by  the  parishes,  by  Hans  Heinrich  Goss- 
weiler,  Pastor. 

Whole 

Families  Persons 

Anno  1734  there  left  from  Windlach 

1.  Hans  Ulrich  Auer,  baptized  December  5,  1699. 

Verena  Eberhardt,  his  wife,  baptized  September  25,  1701. 
Children: 

Verena,  baptized  January  29,  1725. 

Felix,  January    5,  1727. 

Hans  Ulrich,         "         January  10,  1729. 

Margretha,  March       5,  1730 6 

1738  from  Stadel 

2.  Hans    Heinrich    Lang,    Buljorgen,    the    father,    baptized    December    13, 

1674.     Jung   Hans,    son,    baptized   April   9,    1705.     Son's   wife,    Mar- 
gareth  Maag,  baptized  October  7,  1704. 
Children: 

Anna,  baptized  May  8,  1731. 

Regula,  baptized  May  25,  1733. 

Johannes,  baptized  February  19,  1736. 

Verena,  baptized  March  25,  1738 7 

3.  Felix  Huser,  glazier,  baptized  December  5,  1706. 
His  wife,  Barbara  Ortli,  baptized  April  25,  1707. 
Children: 

Anna,  baptized  February  i,  1733. 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  October  2,  1735 4 

Heinrich  Albracht,  called  Kiimin,  baptized  August  24,  1710 i 

Jacob  Lang,  carpenter,  baptized  September  28,  1710 1 

Jacob   Herzog,   shoemaker,   deceased   Heinrich's  son,   baptized   May   28, 
1717...  ..i 

Jacob  Albracht,  Rather 's,  baptized  September  18,  1721 i 

Verena  Huser,  daughter  of  the  mason  Hans,  baptized  May  25,  1704 1 

Jacob  Wiist,  son  of  deceased  Leonhardt,  baptized  September  4,  1712 i 

4.  Felix  Albracht,  drummer,  baptized  May  3,  1691. 

His  wife,  Anna  Huber,  baptized  August  5,  1683 2 

Hans  Huser,  Leonhardt 's  son,  baptized  August  u,  1715 i 

5.  Hans  Heinrich  Albracht,  indoor  weaver,  baptized  August  8,  1709. 

His  wife,  Anna  Merki,  baptized  April  29,  1714 2 


LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IX   THE 

Hans  Ulrich  Albracht,  Hans'  son,  baptized  September  17,  1719  ...........  i 

Hans  Jacob  Albracht,  captain,  Joggeli's  son,  baptized  January  24,  1717..  ..  i 

6.  Felix  Albracht,  Balz's  son,  baptized  September  18,  1707. 
His  wife,  Anna  Schmid,  baptized  January  31,  1708. 

His  sister,  Barbara,  baptized  September  18,  1712  .......................  3 

7.  Heinrich  Huser,  wagon-maker,  baptized  January  21,  1707. 
His  wife  Verena  Huser,  baptized,  September  8,  1709. 
Children: 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  October  22,  1733. 

Heinrich,  baptized  May  15,  1735. 

Ragula,  baptized  February  10,  1737  ...............................  5 

8.  Hans  Albracht,  glazier,  baptized  August  9,  1696. 

His  wife,  Anna  Diibendorffer,  baptized  January  21,  1696. 
Children: 

Heinrich,  baptized,  March  5,  1724. 

Verena,  July  26,  1  732  ..........................................  4 

From  Windlach 

9.  Felix  Lang,  called  Stoffel  Felix,  baptized  April  12,  1710. 
His  wife,  Ragula  Miiller,  baptized  July  31,  1703. 
Children: 

Hans,  baptized  July  3,  1735. 

Barbara,  baptized  January  30,  1737  ...............................  4 

IO.  Heinrich  Schmid,  Schmid's  son,  baptized  March  28,  1706. 
His  wife,  Verena  Weidmann,  baptized  1705. 
Child: 

Hans  Conradt,  baptized  March  19,  1737  ...........................  3 

n.  Hans  Heinrich  Lang,  mason,  baptized  October  31,  1698. 
His  wife,  Anna  Vogel,  baptized  December  4,  1703. 
Children: 

Anna,  baptized  April  4,  1728. 

Anna  Barbara,  baptized  February  27,  1735. 

Barbara,  baptized  February  16,  1738  ..............................  5 

Hans  Auer,  Hans'  son,  baptized  April  13,  1716  .........................  i 

From  Schiipfen 

Jung  Hans  Huber,  Ehgaumer's  son,  baptized  October  14,  1708. 
His  sister,  Vrouegg,  baptized  May  5,  1715  .............................  2 

Rudolph  Weidmann,  deceased  Joggli's  son,  baptized  January  14,  1716  .....  I 

January  24,  1740.     From  Stadel 
Abraham  Schmid,  Heinrich's  son,  baptized  February  4,  1720  .............  I 

Margareth  Schmid,  Joggli's  daughter,  baptized  May  29,  1707  ............  I 

Anna  Miiller,  Jung  Hans'  daughter,  baptized  May  26,  1715  ..............  1 

Elisabeth  Land,  deceased  Heinrich's  daughter,  baptized  September  27, 


From  Windlach 

12.  Hans  Ulrich  Schleher,  baptized  October  5,  1710. 
His  wife  Barbara  Miiller,  baptized  March  24,  1705. 
Children: 

Heinrich,  baptized  December  6,  1733. 

Johannes,  baptized  February  19,  1736  .............................  4 

13.  Heinrich  Lang,  baptized  September  i,  1694. 

His  wife,  Maria  Mayer,  baptized  February  14,  1712. 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       83 

Children: 

Hans,  baptized  November  16,  1726. 

Barbara,  baptized  May  18,  1739 4 

14.  Felix  Huser,  baptized  November  22,  1707. 

Barbara  Mayer,  his  wife,  baptized  December  8,  1709 2 

From  Rath 

15.  Hans  Lang,  baptized  November  28,  1686. 

His  wife,  Anna  Meyer,  baptized  May  13,  1697. 
Children: 

Esther,  baptized  January  15,  1721. 

Felix,  baptized  March  14,  1724. 

Anna,  baptized  July  31,  1729. 

Jacob,  baptized  December  r,  1737 6 

16.  Hans  Cunz,  Peter  Heiri,  baptized  July  14,  1695. 
His  wife,  Veronica  Lang,  baptized  May  21,  1693. 
Children: 

Anna,  baptized  May  22,  1729. 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  December  21,  1730 4 

17.  Jung  Hans  Cunz,  baptized  February  5,  1697. 

His  wife,  Elszbeth  Lang,  baptized  December  19,  1697. 
Children: 

Ragula,  December  19,  1720. 

Veronica,  baptized  May  2,  1734. 

Elisabeth,  baptized  March  29,  1739 5 


April  25,  1743.     From  Stadel 

18.  Vronegg  Auer,  Felix  Lange's  widow,  baptized  December  n,  1708. 
Children: 

Johannes,  baptized  August  22,  1734. 

Margaretha,  baptized  September  i,  1737 3 

19.  Jacob  Schmid,  carpenter,  baptized  January  24,  1688. 

His  wife,  Elisabeth  Duttweiler,  baptized  November  15,  1696. 
Children: 

Barbara,  baptized  April  25,  1723. 

Jacob,  baptized  August  19,  1732. 

Hartmann,  baptized  July  20,  1735 5 

From  Windlach 

20.  Heinrich  Kochli,  baptized  May  4,  1704. 
Elszbeth  Meyerhoffer,  his  wife,  December  20,  1699. 
Children: 

Verena,  baptized  September  22,  1726. 

Cleophea,  baptized  July  II,  1728. 

Anna  Maria,  baptized  August  16,  1733. 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  August  u,  1737. 

Barbara,  baptized  March  19,  1741 7 


From  Rath 

21.  Hans  Rudolff  Meyerhoffer,  baptized  August  18,  1689. 
His  wife  Margaretha  Bersinger,  baptized  1695. 
Children: 

Hans  Rudolff,  baptized  June  I,  1721. 
Johannes,  baptized  April  25,  1723. 
8 


84  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Hans  Ulrich,  baptized  December  9,  1731. 

Anna,  baptized  May  8,  1729. 

Abraham,  baptized  May  8,  1735 7 

22.  Hans  Meyerhoffer,  baptized  August  27,  1694. 
Children: 

Hans,  baptized  February  12,  1726. 

Anna,  baptized  July  19,  1733. 

Margaretha,  baptized  February  22,  1735 4 

23.  Heinrich  Moor,  baptized  February  17,  1711. 
His  wife,  Barbara  Lang,  baptized  July  12,  1711. 
Children: 

Felix,  baptized  September  13,  1739. 
Hans  Jacob,  baptized  November  27,  1740. 

Heinrich,  baptized  December  2,  1742 5 

Jung  Hans  Lang,  Deker's  son,  baptized  July  25,  1686 1 

24.  Heinrich  Huser,  baptized  December  5,  1697. 
His  wife,  Ragula  Mayer,  baptized  July  24,  1698. 
Children: 

Ragula,  baptized  March  23,  1725. 

Anna  Barbara,  baptized  July  13,  1726. 

Johannes,  baptized  August  27,  1730. 

Christoph,  baptized  October  18,  1733. 

Caspar,  baptized  May  22,  1735 7 

25.  Felix  Mayer,  so-called  Hospel,  baptized  December  30,  1703. 
His  wife,  Veronica  Schmid,  baptized  May  29,  1707. 
Children: 

Jacob,  baptized  January  30,  1729. 

Hans  Ulrich,  baptized  December  16,  1731. 

Johannes,  baptized  April  2,  1733. 

Anna,  baptized  February  20,  1735. 

Veronica,  baptized  October  3,  1736. 

Johannes,  baptized  September  26,  1739. 

Verena,  baptized  March  26,  1741 9 

Suszanna  Kampf,  daughter  of  Hans  deceased,  baptized  August  7,  1719.  .  .  .1 
Anna  Mayer,  Hans  Koch's  housewife,  baptized  January  10,  1691 i 

•    March  27,  1744.     From  Stadel 
Margaretha  Albracht,  daughter  of  deceased  Felix,  baptized  October  24, 

1723. 

Total  of  all  who  left  from  the  whole  parish,  138. 
Total  25  families. 

No.  77.     FROM  THE  PARISH  STEINMUR  FROM   1734-1744  THERE 
LEFT  FOR  CAROLINA 

1734.     From  Obersteinmur 

1.  Hans  Miiller,  baptized  September  25,  1707. 
Anna  Weidmann,  baptized  March  16,  1704. 
Children: 

Anna  Maria,  baptized  July  23,  1730. 
Hansz,  baptized  February  15,  1733. 
His  brother: 

Heinrich  Miiller,  baptized  May  29,  1712. 

2.  Heinrich  Surber,  wagon-maker,  baptized  March  20,  1683. 
Anna  Hinnen,  baptized  January  24,  1685. 


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Children: 

Hans  Caspar,  baptized  November  29,  1707. 
Hans  Heinrich,  baptized  January  8,  1719. 
Verena,  baptized  June  5,  1729. 

1738  in  August 

3.  Caspar  Koch,  smith,  baptized  August  4,  1700. 
Verena  M tiller,  baptized  September  i,  1700. 
Children: 

Verena,  baptized  October  8,  1724. 
Rodolff,  baptized  March  14,  1728. 
Anna,  baptized  June  18,  1730. 
Barbara,  baptized  November  16,  1732. 
Beat.,  baptized  March  26,  1735. 
Caspar,  baptized  March  24,  1737. 

4.  Heinrich  Meyer,  Tisen,  baptized  September  i,  1695. 
Anna  Trub,  baptized  July  26,  1711. 

Children: 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  October  13,  1720. 
Verena,  baptized  May  15,  1729. 
Lienhart,  baptized  August  28,  1735. 
Margreth,  baptized  December  i,  1737. 

1741,  in  March.     From  Obersteinmur 

5.  Hansz  Surber,  baptized  November  23,  1690. 
Verena  Surber,  baptized  October  9,  1675. 

6.  Heinrich  Weiszmuller,  baptized  February  26,  1706. 
Barbara  Schmid,  baptized  October  9,  1690. 

7.  Hans  Koch,  Michel's  son,  baptized  August  14,  1681. 
Verena  Meyer,  baptized  June  6,  1686. 

Children: 

Cleophee,  baptized  August  2,  1716. 

Cathrj,  baptized  February  18,  1720. 

Regula,  baptized  November  5,  1724. 
Son: 

Joseph,  baptized  March  I,  1713. 

Kljannj  Meyer,  baptized  June  10,  1715. 
Child: 

Maria,  baptized  January  8,  1741. 

8.  Heinrich  Kochlj,  joiner,  baptized  November  20,  1707. 
Margreth  Vogler,  baptized  June  27,  1716. 
Children: 

Johannes,  baptized  February  27,  1738. 
Felix,  baptized  January  29,  1741. 

9.  Heinrich  Huber,  cabinet-maker,  baptized  January  10,  1686. 
Barbara  Bleiiler,  baptized  September  26,  1706. 
Children: 

Anna  Magdalena,  baptized  January  i,  1736. 

Barbara,  baptized  February  24,  1737. 

Anna,  baptized  April  23,  1741. 

N.B.     Has  also  with  him  his  wife  Barbara,  baptized  January  31,  1734. 

He  is  living  at  Friedrichsthal  in  the  Margravate-Baden-Durlach. 

1743  in  May.     From  Obersteinmur 
10.  Hansz  Koch,  sergeant,  baptized  January  31,  1708. 
Verena  Miiller,  baptized  September  2,  1703. 


86 

Children: 

Anna,  baptized  April  29,  1731. 
Hans,  baptized  April  26,  1733. 
Kljannelj,  baptized  April,  1735. 
Regula,  baptized  October  5,  1738. 
Johannes,  baptized  April  16,  1741. 

1738,  August.     From  Nidersteinmur 

1.  Hans  Meyer,  baptized  January  u,  1691. 
Kljvree  Huber,  baptized  January  14,  1690. 
Children: 

Verena,  baptized  October  25,  1716. 
Verena,  baptized  September  9,  1723. 
Barbara,  baptized  December  8,  1726. 
Regula,  baptized  June  6,  1728. 
Jacob,  baptized  June  u,  1730. 
Anna  Margreth,  baptized  May  n,  1734. 

2.  Caspar  Lips,  baptized  June  25,  1695. 
Regula  Naff,  baptized  November  5,  1693. 
Children: 

Heinrich,  baptized  July  28,  1726. 
Anna,  baptized  May  6,  1728. 
Hans  Caspar,  baptized  January  7,  1731. 
Felix,  baptized  May  16,  1734. 

1741,  April.     Also  from  Nidersteinmur 

3.  Hans  Heirj  Frolj,  baptized  March  28,  1700. 
Anna  Huber,  baptized  October  i,  1702. 
Children: 

Heirj,  baptized  July  6,  1732. 

Hans  Jacob,  baptized  April  4,  1734. 

Anna,  baptized  November  u,  1736. 

John  Baptista,  baptized  December  u,  1740. 

N.B.  This  man  is  said  to  have  taken  with  him  over  one  hundred 
pounds,  but  after  he  had  squandered  this  sum,  returned  with  his  whole 
household.  The  women  and  children  wander  about  as  beggars.  He  serves 
for  a  time  in  a  place,  but  not  too  long.  But  at  Nidersteinmur  he  is  no  longer 
tolerated. 

4.  Hans  Jacob  Trub,  baptized  February  28,  1717.     Jacob's  the  mender's  son. 

1738,  August.     From  Siinnicken 

1.  Two  brothers: 

Heinrich  Zweidler,  baptized  May  31,  1716.          1  TT         .T  .  ., 

, ,  . .       „     •  11       u       •     j  I-A  I  Hans  Hein  s  sons. 

Mathys  Zweidler,  baptized  December  25,  1723.  J 

2.  Two  brothers: 

Heinrich  Volkhart,  baptized  November  17,  1712.  \  The  deceased  Jacob  Volk- 
Hans  Heinrich  Volkhart,  baptized  July  4,  1717.    J       hart's  sons. 

3.  Heirj  Bram,  baptized  June  17,  1712.     Deceased  Felix  Bram's  son. 

1741,  March 

4.  Hans  Huber,  glazier,  baptized  February  7,  1688. 

5.  Hans  Ulrich  Huber,  carpenter,  baptized  March  20,  1698. 
Margreth  Weidmann,  baptized  March  II,  1697. 
Child: 

Lienhard,  baptized  October  3,  1730. 


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Mother  of  the  above  Huber: 

Anna  Zweidler,  baptized  April  20,  1671. 
Sister-in-law: 

Regula  Weidmann,  baptized  December  22,  1709. 

1741.     Also  from  Sunnicken 

6.  Heinrich  Weidman,  mender,  baptized  November  4,  1703. 
Anna  Zweidler,  baptized  March  28,  1709. 
Children: 

Heinrich,  baptized  February  1735. 
Hans  Jacob,  baptized  June  22,  1738. 
Anna,  baptized  June  12,  1740. 

1738.     From  Neerach 

1.  Heinrich  Huszer,  baptized  June  13,  1697. 
Anna  Bucher,  baptized  January  25,  1691. 
Son: 

Felix,  baptized  September  6,  1722. 

1743 

2.  Johannes  Albrecht,  wagon-maker,  baptized  February  13,  1701. 
Magreth  Moor,  baptized  January  23,  1707. 

Children: 

1.  Verena,  baptized  March  25,  1728. 

2.  Hans  Jacob,  baptized  November  6,  1729. 

3.  Jacob,  baptized  February  n,  1731. 

4.  Felix,  baptized  March  14,  1734. 

5.  Annelj,  baptized  February  7,  1740. 

6.  Regina,  baptized  July  22,  1742. 

1743,  May 

3.  Annelj  Kuenz,  baptized  October  5,  1710.     Daughter  of  the  deceased  magis 

trate  (Vogt)  Heiri. 

1741 

4.  Barbara    Kuenz,    baptized    March    12,    1719.     Johannes',    the    carpenter's 

daughter. 

1738 

5.  Melchior  Meyer,  baptized  August  3,  1710. 
Anna  Barbara  Meyer,  baptized  August  20,  1713. 

6.  Anna  Miiller,  baptized  September  15,  1700. 

Illegitimate  child  of  Melcher  Streiff,  tailor's  help-mate  from  Glarus. 
Hans  Jacob,  baptized  September  24,  1729. 

1743,  May 

7.  Barbara  Albrecht  (spinner),  baptized  July  21,  1720.  "j  Jacob  Albrecht's 
Margreth  Albrecht  (spinner),  baptized  February  15,  1722.  >  (called    Wageli) 
Regula  Albrecht,  baptized  August  31,  1723.  J  daughters. 

8.  Margreth    Kuenz,    baptized    October    5,    1721.     Heinrich    Kuenz's    (called 

"Engelheinrich")  daughter. 

1738,  August.     From  Rieth 

I.  Cathrj  Kuenz,  baptized  April  14,  1715.         1  Three     brothers     and     sisters, 
Heirj  Kuenz,  baptized  July  6,  1719.  r     children     of     the     deceased 

Annelj  Kuenz,  baptized  February  15,  1722.]       Hans  Kuenz. 


2.  Jacob  Kuenz,  baptized  October  6,  1715.     Deceased  Hans  Heinrich  Kuenz's 

son. 

3.  Heinrich  Schellenberg,  baptized  December  20,  1716.     Felix's  son. 

No.  78.     FROM  THE  PARISH  STERNENBERG  THERE  LEFT  ON  APRIL 
1 6,  1743,  THE  FOLLOWING  FAMILIES 

(a)  Hansz  Riigg,  43  years,  and  his  wife  Elsbetha  Ott  35  years  of  age,  with  their 

five  children,  the  oldest  of  which  was  12  years  and  the  youngest  10  weeks 
old. 

(b)  Felix  Rebsamen,  45  and  his  wife  Regula  Graff  39  years  old,  with  6  children, 

the  oldest  of  which  was  15  years  and  the  youngest  I  year  old. 
After  selling  his  house  and  goods,  and  paying  the  emigration  tax  on  the 
total,  each  of  these  men  took  away  with  him  about  300  florins  in  money. 

Attested  ex-officio,  HEINRICH  SPRUNGLI,  Pastor. 
Sternenberg,  May  5,  1744. 

No.  79.     ANNO  1738,  THERE  LEFT  Toss,  FROM  THE  ESTATE  TETNAU, 
Two  FAMILIES  FOR  CAROLINA 

1.  Parents:  Children: 

Jacob  Meyer,  born  1695.  |  Heinrich,  born  April  28,  1725. 

Elisabeth  Hofmann,  from  Ober-Schotti-  r  Elsabeth  December     9,  1726. 

ken.  J  Anna  Barbara  December  1 8,  1729. 

Catharina          January         I,  1735. 

Jacob  September  12,  1737. 

]  Hans  Jacob       April  14,  1733. 

2.  Hans  Heinrich,  born  1709.  nr    , 

_,„  '.,  fElsbeth  October       23,1735. 

Barbara  Keller,  from  J  shken.  u         -.-..  ... 

J  Hans  Georg       April  7,  1738. 

Note:  Concerning  these  two  families  I  have  not  been  able  to  learn  up  to 
the  present,  in  spite  of  frequent  inquiries,  where  they  got  to. 

Anno  July  31,  1743   - 
Has  gone  from  Tosz  to  Pennsylvania  with  wife  and  child: 

Parents:  Child: 

Hans  Caspar  Siber,  born  June  12    1717.    |  A         Qctober 
Elsbetha  Klaiie,  born  September  8,  1707.  J 

Note:  Concerning  this  family  the  report  was  circulated  in  the  first  four 
weeks,  that  the  father  and  the  child  has  died  at  Basel.6  But  since  then  nothing 
has  been  heard,  whether  this  rumor  be  true  or  whether  they  travelled  farther. 

No.  80.     TRULLIKON 

From  this  parish  and  all  four  sections  of  it,  since  1734  there  was  no  one  with 
the  intention  of  going  to  the  new-found-land,  except: 
Conrad  Wieland,  from  Trutikon,  who  faithlessly  left  his  wife,  on  account  of 

bad  management,  at  the  end  of  the  year  1732,  and  I  do  not  know  whither 

he  has  gone. 
I.  Anna  Engeler,  his  wife,  born  July  I,  1693,  with  four  children:    (i)  Lisab.,  born 

March  23,  1718.     (2)  Hans  Rud.,  October  6,  1720.     (3)  Urss.,  August  25, 

1723.     (4)  Hans  Conrad,  May  10,  1731. 

6  The  same  sold  her  house  and  goods  in  October,  and  after  she  missed  getting 
away  the  first  time,  and  I  in  the  meantime  had  spoken  to  the  magistrate  of 
Toggenburg  about  these  people,  she  left  with  the  rest  of  her  means  and  children. 
Where  they  got  to,  God  knows! 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       89 

2.  Elsbeth  Habliizel  from  Triillikon,  who  however  first  married  Herman  Gyger 

from  the  parish  Diebolzau  in  Rhynthal,  February  26,   1734.     He  is  said 

to  have  taken  away  from  his  father,  etc.,  according  to  an  understanding 

with  him,  about  800  pounds. 

From  their  destination  the  man  wrote  to  his  poor  brother-in-law  and  rela 
tives,  as  I  have  seen  and  read  in  the  letter,  that  he  was  getting  along  well,  he  had 
plenty  of  food,  and  if  they  wished,  they  should  come  to  him.  Enough  to  eat  and 
also  to  work  they  would  find  with  him;  if  they  could  only  provide  for  themselves 
as  far  as  England,  he  would  from  there  on  pay  their  passage,  but  with  the  pro 
vision,  that  they  would  pay  back  the  outlay  with  work.  But  on  my  advice  they 
remained,  but  had  not  the  old  sister-in-law  died,  and  if  poverty  did  not  hold  them 
back,  I  do  not  know  what  they  would  do. 

Hans  Ulrich  Vogeler  and  his  wife  Elsbeth  Peyer  from  Triillikon  with  two 
children,  who  are  overloaded  with  debts  and  would  make  more  if  they  could, 
are  also  anxious  to  go,  but  poverty  holds  them  back.  But  they  have  stirred  up 
another  neighbor,  who  has  no  children  and  an  infirm  wife,  that  he  should  sell 
his  property  and  go  along,  etc. 

But  he  wished  that  he  and  his  wife  and  his  surplus  200  pounds  be  put  under 
the  care  of  the  hospital,  before  their  property  should  grow  less.  I  started  negoti 
ations  for  them,  but  was  told  that  for  a  married  couple  there  was  no  room. 

Therefore  I  proposed  another  plan  to  His  Honor  the  Governor,  which  was 
feasible  in  case  these  people  would  desire  more  assistance.  I  tell  you  this,  so 
that  you  may  see  what  efforts  are  necessary,  and  that  Christian  care  with  its 
seriousness  is  very  much  needed. 

Mart]  Zehender,  a  young  unmarried  man,  petitioned  his  older  brother  Hans 
Ulrich,  he  should  give  him  18  pounds,  so  that  he  might  on  Easter  Monday  go 
forth  with  those  from  Andelfingen  to  Carolina,  and  he  would  no  longer  then  as 
before  come  to  him  in  bad  clothes  and  be  a  burden  to  him,  and  would  also  make 
no  further  claim  to  his  inheritance.  On  that  he  would  give  a  written  pledge. 

I  said,  that  if  he  wished  to  give  up  his  citizen's  rights,  he  could  apply  at  the 
proper  place,  but  if  not,  his  honest  brother  should  not  spend  money  as  for  the 
interest,  and  let  the  good-for-nothing  waste  it.  After  squandering  it,  he  would 
come  back,  and  then  he  would  have  to  support  him  again. 

This  report  I  am  glad  to  furnish,  so  that  our  poor  people  be  spared  needless 
governmental  expenses.  If  the  saving  were  only  carried  through  in  all  things, 
particularly  as  concerns  widows  and  orphans.  For  if  despair  once  adopts  another 
road,  conditions  would  really  be  very  bad,  because  God's  severe  judgment  is  to 
be  feared. 

April  25,  1744.  Pastor  CASPAR  BRUNNER. 

No.  81.     FROM  THE  PARISH  TURBENTHAL  THE  FOLLOWING  HAVE 
GONE  TO  CAROLINA 

February  1743.     Catharina  Riiegg,  legitimate  daughter  of  Hans  Heinrich  Riiegg, 

from  the  Ramsberg.     Baptized  November  15,  1711. 
March        1743.     Johannes  Biichj,  Postumous,  legitimate  son  of  Rudolph  Biichj, 

deceased,  from  Neubrunn.     Baptized  December  14,  1721. 
Turbenthal,  April  23,  1744. 

Attested,  Pastor  SCHEUCHZER. 

No.  82.     UHWISEN 

Very  Revered,  Learned,  Honored  Minister  and  Dean: 

In  reply  to  your  gracious  command,  etc.,  etc.,  I  report  as  follows:  About 
three  years  ago,  four  heads  of  families,  possessed  of  many  children,  announced 


90  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

themselves  to  me  and  truly  sought  counsel  as  to  whether  they  should  go  to 
Carolina,  but  on  my  representations  they  yielded  at  once,  so  that  up  to  date,  God 
be  thanked,  no  one  is  known  to  have  gone  thither  out  of  my  parish.  Those  that 
are  in  military  service  were  specified  a  year  ago  and  sent  to  the  high  authorities; 
for  their  glory  was  but  half  as  great  as  the  seducers  claimed.  With  a  well  provided 
Divine  service,  I  should  be  pleased  to  care  for  40  families  or  more.  With  saluta 
tions  etc., 

Uhwisen,  April  6,  1744.  JOH.  HEINRICH  HEITZ,  Pastor. 

P.S.  What  happened  at  the  visitation  of  BANKEN,  will  undoubtedly  have 
been  reported  by  his  Honor  Chamberlain  Wirth,  etc.,  etc. 

No.  83.     URDORFF 

To  go  to  Carolina  and  lands  about  there,  since  1734,  no  one  left  this  parish 
of  Nider-Urdorff,  nor  the  middle  or  lower  Rabstal,  but  two  unmarried  boys: 

Jacob  Grob,  son  of  Hans  Grob,  37  years  old,  and 

Felix  Huber,  son  of  the  deceased  Jacob  Huber,  aged  35  years,  who  up  to 
this  served  under  peasants  at  other  places,  and  on  the  i6th  of  July,  1743,  without 
permission  of  the  authorities,  and  without  a  certificate  of  baptism  left  the  country. 
But  because  the  latter  left  behind  a  woman  with  a  child,  to  whom  he  was  be 
trothed,  named  Verena  Lips,  daughter  of  the  deceased  Melcher  Lips,  from  this 
place,  who  suspecting  his  departure,  followed  him  to  Basel,  but  could  neither 
overtake  him  nor  find  out  anything  about  him,  the  matter  was  brought  before 
the  marriage  court,  November  5,  1743,  the  promise  of  marriage  nullified,  the  child 
declared  legitimate  and  with  the  right  of  inheritance,  and  its  bringing  up  put  in 
charge  in  the  meantime  of  his  brothers  Caspar  and  Heinrich  Huber.  This  is  a 
pattern  of  what  fruits  the  emigration-fever  grows  and  leaves. 

Urdorff,  April  3,  1744.  Attested,  JOHANN  JACOB  ULRICH,  Pastor. 

No.  84.     LIST  OF  THOSE  PERSONS  WHO  LEFT  THE  PARISH  USTER 

FOR  CAROLINA 

Jacob  Frey,  sergeant,  son  of  the  deceased  Heinrich  Frey,  from  Sultzbach, 
baptized  1695,  December  i,  aged  48  years  and  n  months,  left  for  Carolina 
September  5,  1736,  with  his  wife  Regula  Appert,*  baptized  January  8,  1699, 
aged  45  years  and  3  months,  with  three  children :  Anna  Barbara,  baptized  Decem 
ber  17,  1724,  aged  19  years  and  3  months;  Elsbetha,  baptized  January  30,  1725, 
aged  1 8  years,  3  months;  Heinrich  baptized  October  24,  1728,  aged  15  years, 
10  months. 

With  him  there  has  gone  to  Carolina  also  Hans  Jacob  Homberger,  from 
Sultzbach,  a  boy  of  17  years,  2  months.  Has  neither  wife  nor  child,  brothers  nor 
sisters. 

Hans  Wolfensperger,  sergeant,  son  of  the  deceased  Hans  Wolfensperger, 
from  Kirch-Uster,  baptized  August  26,  1706,  aged  37  years,  7  months,  also  went 
to  Carolina  in  1743,  in  September,  with  his  wife  Anna  Regina  Huber,  baptized 
January  10,  1711,  aged  33  years  and  3  months,  with  four  children:  Regula, 
baptized  March  I,  1731,  aged  13  years,  I  month;  Elisabeth,  baptized  January  i, 
1735,  aged  9  years,  3  months;  Anna,  baptized  October  28,  1737,  aged  7  years, 
5  months;  Cleophea,  baptized  March  26,  1739,  aged  5  years. 

Attested,  JOHANNES  SCHWYTZER,  Vicar  at  Uster. 

*  Note:  He  is  not  in  Carolina,  but  in  the  Spanish  service,  his  wife  and  children 
with  Hans. 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES      91 
No.  85.     FEHRALTORFF 

Ulrich  Stutz,  baptized  May  27,  1688. 

Elisabeth  Ochsner,  from  Zimikon,  the  parish  Volkenschweyl. 

Married  here  September  4,  1731.     After  selling  all  their  property,  which 

netted  200  pounds,  left  here  for  Carolina,  August  29,  1738. 
Children  of  the  above: 

Heinrich,  baptized,  May  28,  1732. 

Caspar,  baptized  November  20,  1735. 

Barbara,  baptized  July  14,  1737. 

For  their  children's  sake  they  took  with  them: 
Hans  Wolgemuth,  Hans'  posthumous  son,  a  very  poor  boy,  baptized  April  2,  1719. 

Concerning  these  no  certain  report  has  been  obtainable.  In  the  meantime 
there  was  a  rumor,  that  they  suffered  shipwreck,  and  with  a  great  number  wretch 
edly  went  to  their  doom. 

Just  at  the  same  time  there  went  away  from  here,  to  go  to  Carolina: 
Hans  Jacob  Bachofen,  baptized  November  25,  1703. 
Cleophela  Wolgemuth,  baptized  August  16,  1707. 

Married  couple  wedded  here  December  13,  1735. 

At  Basel  they  were  dissuaded  from  their  purpose.  The  woman  came  back, 
the  man,  however,  sought  a  livelihood  elsewhere,  and  found  it  with  a  charcoal- 
burner  in  Alsace,  where  he  remains  in  a  wretched  condition. 

This  honest  and  pitiable  man  might  have  very  well  earned  his  bread  here 
with  weaving  woolen  fabric.  But  his  wife  in  her  evil  ways  not  only  deprived  him 
of  his  food  and  household  goods,  but  even  abstracted  some  of  the  wool-yarn,  so 
that  he  could  not  return  the  full  weight,  and  finally  lost  him  employment,  which 
reduced  him  to  this  sad  extremity.  The  above  mentioned  woman  has  now  become 
vagrant,  so  that  in  spite  of  all  inquiries,  I  do  not  know  where  she  may  be. 

Margreth  Gut,  from  the  Senscheiir,  a  fief  depending  upon  Kyburg,  baptized 
October  14,  1718,  married  here  May  23,  1742,  to  Rodolff  Briingger,  a  carpenter 
by  trade.  She  could  not  get  along  with  her  husband  and  father-in-law,  departed 
from  here  without  taking  leave,  June  28,  1743,  to  join  those  from  Dagerlen 
reported  to  be  going  to  Carolina.  She  went  with  a  woman  who  was  following  her 
husband,  a  smith,  who  had  journeyed  thither  in  order  to  help  support  his  children 
on  wages  promised  him. 

For  the  rest  I  am  quite  sure,  that  now  no  one  else  in  the  parish  has  a  leaning 
toward  the  so-called  New-found-land. 

Fehraltorff,  April  2,  1744.  Thus  testifies  HANS  JACOB  WIRTZ,  p. I. 

No.  86.    LIST  OF  THOSE  WHO  SINCE  1734  LEFT  THE  PARISH  VOLKET- 

SCHWEILER   TO   GO   TO    CAROLINA 

Born  1698,  Heinrich  Hegetschweiler,          February    20. 1  These  left  in  the  pre- 
1697,  Barbara  Buchmann,  his  wife,  September  26.  J      ceding  year,  1742. 
Children:  Margaretha,  born  1719,  in  October;    Anna,  March,  1720;    Susanna, 
September,    1722;    Anna   Barbara,   May,    1724;    Heinrich,  August,    1726; 
Hans  Heinrich,  August,  1728;   Beat.  Rudolff,  August,  1731;  Jacob,  —  1739; 
Verena,  April,  1736. 

Total  4  sons  and  5  daughters. 

From  Zimickon 

1694,  Caspar  Hesz,  and  1  „,          .      . 

c.    \         T^      u,.  u-       •<•      r  These  also  in  the  42nd  year  (1742). 
1706,  Anna  Knecht,  his  wife.  J 

Child:  Hans  Rudolff,  born  April  1739. 

Margretha  Knecht,  sister  of  the  above  Anna,  unmarried,  born  May,  1708. 


92  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

1699.  Hansz  Ochsner.  April  29,  and  1  „, 

.          „     .  .        „       .  >  L  nese  leit  \  years  ago. 

Anna  Zuncher,  October  22.      J 

Child:  Hans  Jacoblj,  born  November,  1737. 

Volketschweil,  attested  April  2,  1744.  J.  H.  FREY,  Pastor. 

No.  87.     WADESCHWEIL.     (SEE  PLATE  n) 

Highly  Revered,  etc.,  Dean!  I  have  the  honor,  in  reply  to  the  circular 
received,  to  inform  the  Highborn,  etc.,  Dean  that  no  more,  as  far  as  we  can 
learn,  have  left  Wadeschweil  for  Carolina,  than, 

1.  Johannes  Theiler,  baptized  October  8,  1690  and  his  wife, 
Margretha  Meyer,  baptized,  September  8,  1698. 

Also  their  son  with  his  family,  to  wit: 

2.  Hans  Jacob  Theiler,  baptized  December  3,  1713. 

Magdalena  Belon,  from  the  Dauphine,  baptized  September  15,  1737. 
Children:  Hans  Rudolff,  baptized  September  15,  1737. 

Elisabeth,  baptized  January  12,  1739. 
Joining  them  and  leaving  his  wife,  Anna  Tobler,  behind: 

3.  Hans  Heinrich  Baumann,  baptized  March  23,  1673. 

This  departure  took  place  in  April,  1739.  It  was  rumored  that  old  Theiler, 
the  father  of  Johannes,  died  on  the  way.  Hans  Jacob,  as  much  as  two  years  ago, 
sent  back  a  letter  in  which  he  praises  his  good  fortune  and  the  new  land.  Other 
than  these,  thank  Heaven,  I  know  of  none  from  my  parish,  who  were  possessed 
by  the  desire  to  emigrate. 

Obedient  Servant, 

Jos.  CASPAR  HOFMEISTER,  Pastor. 
Wadeschweilen,  April  10,  1744. 

FROM  THE  PARISH  SCHONENBERG  NO  ONE  WAS  so  PERVERSE  AS  TO  GO 
No.  88.     LIST  OF  PERSONS  FROM  THE  PARISH  WALLISSELLEN,  WHO 

SINCE    THE   YEAR    1734   LEFT    FOR    CAROLINA 

Married  people.  Left  October  5,  1734.  Baptized. 

1.  I.  Hans  Heinrich  Merki June  3,  1688 

2.  Elsbeth  Wezstein,  wife May  30,  1693 

Children: 

3.  Heinrich February    23,  1716 

4.  Kilian November  22,  1719 

5.  Hans October       26,  1 722 

6.  Hans  Conrad September  21,  1727 

7.  II.  Konrad  Naff July  u,  1680 

8.  Ana  Barb.  Dappeler,  wife May  2,  1686 

Children: 

9.  Anna June  23,  1715 

10.  Hans  Jacob January      20,  1726 

11.  Hans  Jacob  (same  name) January      25,  1728 

12.  III.  Jacob  Naff February    17,  1692 

13.  Lisabeth  Kuhn,  wife December  15,  1695 

Children: 

14.  Anna July  28,  1720 

15.  Lisabeth March         18,  1725 

1 6.  IV.  Hans  Conrad  Keller,  carpenter March     .    14,  1706 

17.  Barbara  Blaar,  wife December     9,  1703 


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EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       93 

Child: 

18.  Matheus July  25,  1734 

19.  V.  Martin  Schellenberg November  29,  1706 

20.  Verena  Benz,  wife April  13,  1713 

21.  VI.  Jacob  Naff,  above  Conrad  Naff's  son December     I,  1710 

22.  Elsbeth  Haller,  wife May  24,  1711 

Unmarried  people. 

23.  Barbara  Haller,  daughter  of  Hans  Georg October  7,  1708 

24.  Hans  Conrad  Naff,  deceased  Ulrich's  son April  30,  1713 

25.  Ursula  Schellenberg,  above  Hans  Martin's  sister  .  .  .July  4,  1711 

26.  Hans  Jacob  Rathgeb,  son  of  Jacob  deceased July  29,  1708 

27.  Jacob  Wiiest,  son  of  Hans  Heinrich March  18,  1714 

28.  Hans  Rudolf  Aeberli,  son  of  Jacob  deceased September  n,  1712 

29.  Hans  Ludwig  Lienhardt,  son  of  Heinrich July  26,  1712 

Left  on  May  6,  1743 
Married. 

1.  I.  Hans  Heinrich  Keller,  carpenter October      27,  1672 

2.  Jacob  Keller,  his  son,  also  a  carpenter May  i,  1702 

3.  Anna  Naff,  wife March  2,  1702 

Children  of  Jacob  Keller: 

4.  Rudolf June  29,  1727 

5.  Jacob April  17,  1729 

6.  Anna July  19,  1733 

7.  Lisabeth September  16,  1736 

8.  Magdalena January        4,  1739 

9.  Susanna November  20,  1740 

10.  II.  Rudolff  Naff May  25,  1679 

11.  Hans   Naff,    his  son,    the   above   Hans   Heinrich 

Keller's  son-in-law February      9,  1710 

12.  Susanna  Keller,  wife October      29,  1713 

There  left  on  May  8,  1743 
Married. 

1.  I.  Hans  Heinrich  Naff March         29,  1692 

Lisabeth  Winsch,  wife January        7,  1703 

Children: 

2.  Hans  Heinrich September  21,  1727 

3.  Hans  Jacob September  23,  1731 

4.  Verena August          8,  1 734 

5.  Elsbeth December  16,  1736 

6.  Beat January        8,  1 741 

7.  Barbara March         17,1 743 

9.  II.   Hans  Jacob  Naff,  brother  of  the  above November  14,  1697 

10.  Barbara  Kuhn,  wife February      5,  1699 

Children: 

11.  Elsbeth August  20,  1730 

12.  Balthasar May  2,  1734 

13.  Jacob February  17,  1743 

14.  III.  Ulrich  Naff,  brother  of  the  above March         18,  1703 

15.  Elsbeth  Weber July  18,  1706 

Children : 

16.  Anna April  28,  1726 

1 7.  Regula February  20,  1 729 

1 8.  Heinrich February  20,  1735 


94  LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Unmarried. 

19.  Anna  Barbara  Naff,  daughter  of  Hanz  Naff,  school 

master December  12,  1717 

20.  Esther  Naff,  her  sister June  II,  1719 

Total:  6 1  persons. 

No.  89.     LIST  OF  PERSONS,  WHO  FROM  1734-1744  FOOLISHLY  LEFT 
THE  PARISH  WYACH  TO  GO  TO  OTHER  STRANGE  COUNTRIES 

Anno  1734  Born 

Heinrich  Meyerhofer,  Rudolf  Meyerhofer's  son 1703 

Hans  Heinrich  Meyerhofer,  Rudolf  Meyerhofer's  son 1709 

Anno  1738 

Andreas  Baumgartner,  tiler 1687 

Barbara  Meyer 1697 

Children: 

Rudolf 1720 

Anna 1724 

Anna  Barbara 1 726 

Andreas 1728 

Christofell 1731 

Heinrich  Baumgartner 1687 

Barbara  Griesser 1688 

Children: 

Verena 1 72o 

Heinrich 1727 

Anna 1 73° 

Maria  Baumgartner,  widow J679 

Children: 

Andreas ; 1713 

Veronica  Kempf,  his  wife I7J5 

Anna 1718 

Heinrich I723 

Hans  Meyerhofer . 1689 

Elsbetha  Albracht 1682 

Children: 

Hansz 1726 

Catharina 173° 

Rudolf  Meyerhofer 1673 

Elsabetha  Baumgartner 1673 

Mathias  Baumgartner I7°8 

Susanna  Meyerhofer I7°5 

Anno  1743 

Heinrich  Baumgartner 1695 

Margretha  Bersinger T^94 

Children: 

Barbara 1724 

Cleophea 1727 

Barbara  Baumgartner,  this  man's  sister 1691 

Regula  Balthasar,  widow  of  Felix  Bersinger 1695 

Child: 

Andreas  .  .  1 728 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES      95 

Anno  1744 

Rudolf  Baumgartner 1698 

Barbara  Meyerhofer 1688 

N.B.     Margretha  Albrecht,  from  Stadell,  who  served  with  this  Baumgartner, 
and  is  said  to  be  with  child  by  him. 

Total:  36.  WOLF. 

April  14,  1744. 

No.  90.    LIST  OF  PERSONS  WHO  LEFT  THE  PARISH  WENNINGEN 
FOR  PENNSYLVANIA  AND  CAROLINA 


Brothers. 


1743  Hans  Jacob  Scheiir  Meyer, 
Anna  Eberhardt. 
Child: 

Anna. 

2 

Hansz  Bucher, 
Anna  Lang. 
Children: 

Hansz, 

Anna. 

Unmarried: 
Hans  Jacob  Meyer, 
Margaretha  Scheur  Meyer, 
Heinrich  Jagli, 

Heinrich  Surber,  1  _ 

T       ,   c     ,  r  Brothers. 

Jacob  Surber,       J 


1734  Hansz  Caspar  Meyer, 
Margaretha  Buecher. 
Children: 

Hansz  Rudolff, 

Anna, 

Hansz  Jacob. 

Unmarried : 
Heinrich  Schmid, 
Jacob  Schmid, 
1738  Caspar  Buecher, 
Margreth  Hauser, 
Children: 

Heinrich, 

Verena, 

Hans  Heinrich. 
Unmarried : 
Heinrich  Schyblin, 
Hansz  Schyblin, 
Lisabeth  Schyblin, 
Heinrich  Wirth, 
Anna  Klayslin, 
Hansz  Jacob  Duttweiler, 
Jacob  Meyer, 
Barbara  Meyer  (in), 

Total:  32  persons. 


No.  91.     FROM  THE  PARISH  WETZIKON  THERE  LEFT  FOR  CAROLINA 

IN  MAY  1743 

Heinrich  Furrer,  from  Stagen,  who  really  belongs  to  the  Gossau  district, 
born  November  13,  1691.  He  has  with  him  his  wife  Susanna  Baumann,  born 
January  24,  1692  and  the  following  children: 

Felix,  April  I,  1720. 

Hans  Jacob,  October  4,  1722. 

Susanna,  December  31,  1724. 

Hans  Felix,  July  12,  1729. 

Anna  Maria,  October  8,  1731. 

Barbara,  May  15,  1735. 

A  son  Hans,  born  October  10,  1717,  is  in  the  Dutch  service,  the  father  wrote 
to  him  from  Rotterdam  that  he  should  also  make  the  journey  with  them,  but 
he  did  not  go.  About  two  weeks  after  Whitsuntide  1743,  there  also  travelled 
thither  Felix  Schmid  from  Kempten,  born  January  6,  1695,  who  was  later  declared 
a  bankrupt.  Attested,  JOHANNES  ULRICH,  Pastor. 


96  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

No.  92.    FROM  WANGEN  THERE  WENT  TO  CAROLINA  THE  FOL 
LOWING  Two  BOYS 

1.  Caspar  Gut,  baptized  November  14,  1713.     Went  there  after  the  death  of 

both  his  parents,  anno  1734. 

2.  Felix  Hiirrlimann,  baptized  November  26,  1719.     Also  betook  himself  thither 

after  the  death  of  his  parents,  anno  1743. 

Both  had  no  more  means  to  take  along  than  about  10  pounds,  and  could 
in  n,o  way  be  got  away  from  their  purpose.  It  happened  with  the  knowledge  of 
the  authorities. 

March  31,  1744.  FELIX  WEYSS,  Pastor. 

No.  93.  LIST  OF  PERSONS  WHO  SINCE  1734  AND  UP  TO  1744  LEFT 
THE  PARISH  WEISSLINGEN  TO  GO  TO  THE  NEW  WORLD  IN 
PENNSYLVANIA 

Anno  1734 

1.  Anna  Juker,  from  Neschweil,  daughter  of  Ulj  Juker,  20  years  old:   Went  first 

to  Brabant  to  a  relative,  and  from  there  she  got  an  opportunity  to  go  to 
Pennsylvania.     She  is  also  said  to  be  married  there. 

Anno  1736 

2.  Left  here,  Heinrich  Keller,  from  Theilingen,  the  deceased  Caspar  Keller's 

son,  born  February  1716,  unmarried  youth. 

3.  Left  with  the  above,  Christophel  Jsler,  from  Theilingen,  the  deceased  Hans 

Jszler's  unmarried  son,  born  January  II,  1712. 

Anno  1742 

4.  Ludwig  Koblet,  from  Neschweil,  25  years  old,  unmarried. 

5.  Jacob  Sporri,  from  Neschweil,  the  deceased  Jacob  Sporri's  unmarried  son: 

Of  these  four  persons  there  has  been  no  news  until  now. 

6.  Caspar  Sporri,  from  Neschweil,  the  above  deceased  Jacob  Sporri's  son,  20 

years  old.     The  latter  took  with  him 

Anna  Meilj,  from  Dettenried,  and  they  are  said  to  have  been  united  in  mar 
riage  at  Basel,  or  on  the  ship. 

Anno  1743 

Left  here,  Heinrich  Meilj  from  Lendiken: 
Regula  Homberger,  his  wife. 
Children: 

Verena,  aged  3  years. 
Jacob,  aged  i  year, 
and  with  him  Heinrich  Meilj,  his  half-brother,  aged  16. 

The  latter  had  been  in  the  Dutch  service  since  about  10  years  under  Captain 
Werdmuller,  and  declared  that  he  was  going  to  Holland  again.  No  news  has 
been  received,  as  to  whether  he  remained  in  Holland  or  went  to  Carolina. 

.  FELIX  NUSCHELER,  Pastor. 

NO.    94.      WlSENDANGEN 

Very  Revered,  Learned  and  Esteemed  Dean! 

In  response  to  the  command  of  the  authorities,  I  am  sending  a  list  of  those 
who  emigrated  from  their  fatherland  between  1734-1744  and  were  destined  for 
the  New  World. 


EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY  TO  THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES       97 

Anno  November  12,  1734 

Johannes  Wurman,  baptized  February  6,  1698.  j  Married  JanuarVj  l6 
Elsbeth  Boszhart,  baptized  May  31,  1696. 
With  their  children: 

Anna,  baptized  October  31,  1728. 

Elsbeth,  baptized  August  27,  1730. 

Hans  HeiriWurmann,  baptized,  March  17,  1696.1   Marr.ed   Noyember   T>          8_ 
Magdalena  Goszweiler,  baptized  March  15,  1707.  J 
With  their  children: 

Rudolf,  baptized  August  2,  1729. 

Barbara,  November  12,  1730. 

Ursula,  January  8,  1732. 

Hans  Heinrich,  October  18,  1733. 

Jacob  Widmer,  baptized  August  28,  1681.  j  ^.^  June         i?2j 
Margretha  Deebrunner,  January  8,  1793.  J 
With  their  children: 

Jacob,  August  25,  1722. 

Margr.,  January  21,  1725. 

Elsbeth,  December  5,  1728. 

Suszanna,  June  10,  1731- 

Anna,  March  2,  1734. 

Andreas  Widmer,  baptized  August  u,  1696.  1  , 

f  Married  Februarv  3,  1728. 
Susanna  Hiltzmger,  April  12,  1696. 

June  21,  1743 
Rudolf  Hegj,  baptized  December  6    1698. 


Barbara  Brandenberger,  baptized  April  20,  1696. 
With  their  children: 

Suszanna,  April  2,  1724. 

Rudolf,  February  13,  1729. 

Hans  Jacob,  June  i,  1732. 

Jacob,  April  3,  1738. 

Hans  Conrad  Siisztrunk,  baptized  February  7,  1712.  \  Married     November     30, 
Anna  Biihlmann,  February  26,  1713.  )       1734- 

With  their  children: 

Jacob,  November  13,  1735. 

Hans  Conrad,  January  I,  1737. 

Magdalena,  February  15,  1739. 

Ulrich,  February  5,  1741. 

Othmar,  September  30,  1742. 

With  the  wish  for  true  well-being  and  most  reverent  respect,  I  consign  my 
most  devoutly  honored  Dean  to  the  protection  of  Heaven. 

Wisendangen,  April  10,  1744. 

I  am  His  most  deeply  indebted  servant, 

HANS  JACOB  BERGER,  Pastor. 

No.  95.     FROM  THE  PARISH  WYLA,  A  YEAR  AGO  AFTER  WHITSUN 
TIDE,  THE  FOLLOWING  PERSONS  WENT  TO  CAROLINA 

Hans  Jacob  Ott,  from  Ottenhub,  aged  48. 
Lisabeth  Keller,  "  35. 

Children: 

Elsbeth,         aged  14. 

Magdalena,       "      12. 

Margaretha,     "       8. 

Barbara,  "       3. 

9 


98  LISTS   OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 

Hans  Heinrich  Ott,  the  deceased  Hans  Rudolff  Ott's  (from  Ottenhub)  surviving 

son,  aged  26. 

Hans  Ulrich  Ott,  Hans  Jacob  Ott's  son,  aged  19. 
Barbara  Frey,  Hans  Jacob  Frey's  daughter  (from  the  Auw),  aged  24. 

April  28.  1744.  Written  by  BEAT  KITT,  Pastor  at  Wyla. 

No.  96.     FROM  THE  PARISH  WILDBERG  THERE  WENT  TO  CAROLINA 
IN  THE  YEAR  1734 

Jacob  Steinman,  tenant  on  a  fief  at  Wildberg,  otherwise  from  the  parish  Schlatt, 

aged  55. 
Children: 

Hansz  Jacob,  aged  33. 

Magdalena,        "     30. 

Heinrich,  "     29. 

Hans  Ulrich,      "     25. 

Beatrix,  "     22. 

David,  "     20. 

Susanna,  18. 

Salomon,  15. 

Anna,  "     13. 

This  Steinmann,  however,  and  his  children  are  said  not  to  have  got  further 
than  the  Palatinate,  where  they  are  said  to  have  settled. 
Hansz  Kiibler,  aged  about  50,  from  Wildberg,  his  wife  and  two  children. 
Hansz  Jacob  Jszler,  aged  40,  with  wife  and  three  children. 
Hansz  Heinrich  Boszhart,  from  Toszegg,  aged  22. 
1743.     Kli  Jogg  Meylj,  from  Erikon,  aged  61. 
His  son:  Jacob  Meilj,  aged  29. 

Ragula  Keller,  Gotthard  Keller's  (the  suicide's)  surviving  daughter  from  Schal- 
chen,  aged  30. 

Attested  by  WASER,  Vicar  of  Wildberg. 

No.  97.    WYLA 

List  of  all  those  persons  who  since  1734,  against  all  warnings,  went  out  of 
the  land,  leaving  homes  and  fatherland.  Anno  1734,  September  4,  there  left 
for  Carolina — 

Michel  Keller,  from  Wasterkingen,  with  his  wife,  born  in  Rorbas,  and  a  child. 
Jacob  Niikom,  from  Wyl,  soldier,  who  lately  committed  adultery  with  Anna 

Nukomm. 
Elsbeth  Witenberger,  a  young  pretty  unmarried  girl,  who  allowed  herself  to  be 

persuaded  by  this  soldier,  they  wish  to  be  united  in  marriage  on  the  way. 
It  has  not  been  possible  to  get  any  information  about  them. 

Anno  1741  in  the  spring  there  left  for  Carolina: 

Hansz  Rutschmann,  from  Hiintwangen  with  his  wife,  born  in  Bachs,  and  a  child. 
Heinrich  Mejer  with  his  wife,  both  from  Hiintwangen,  no  children. 
Bachschlj  Demuth,  smith,  from  Hiintwangen,  with  his  wife  and  a  child. 

Of  the  first  two  parties  nothing  has  been  ascertainable,  but  the  smith  suc 
ceeded  in  getting  to  Carolina  with  his  wife  and  child,  and  has  been  able  to  send  a 
letter  brought  by  a  man  from  Glarus,  the  contents  of  which  were,  that  he  is  strong 
and  can  work  well,  can  finally  sustain  himself  (in  the  new  country),  that  whoever 
is  at  home  in  his  fatherland,  should  remain  there,  he  wished  that  he  had  done  so. 

Anno  1744,  March  31,  there  left  for  Pennsylvania: 


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Heinrich  Keller,  a  young  schoolmaster  from  Hiintwangen,  with  his  wife  born 
in  Eglisau,  together  with  his  little  son,  called  Samuel,  who  according  to  her 
opinion  is  to  become  a  prophet  ("der  nach  ihrer  Meinung  ein  Prophet  werden 
soil"). 

This  young  schoolmaster,  and  the  shop-keeper  Bersinger  from  Weyach, 
have  been  agitators  for  many  years  already,  and  all  the  emigrants  in  the  district 
Eglisau,  and  many  also  in  Kleggau  they  have  seduced  with  falsified  letters  and 
booklets.  Because  everything  was  given  out  to  them  to  be  so  good,  these  people 
finally  left  their  homes. 
Hans  Sigerist,  called  Miillerhanseli  from  Hoff  Buchenlo,  60  years  of  age,  has 

left  his  old  wife  malitiously. 

Hans  Sigerist,  his  son,  with  his  wife,  born  in  Rafz,  with  two  little  children. 
Heinrich  Sigerist,  also  from  Buchenlo  with  his  wife  from  Rafz  and  a  daughter 

10  years  old,  who  can  read  and  pray  very  well  indeed. 

Magdalena  Mejer,  born  in  Hiintwangen,  malitiously  left  her  husband  Heinrich 
Nukomm  of  Wyl,  and  through  the  seduction  of  the  above-named  school 
master,  also  left  with  him. 

N.B.     The  most  of  these  emigrants  could  still  very  well  have  got  along  and 
supported  themselves  in  the  fatherland. 

Total  of  all  persons  who  left  the  parish  WYL  from  1734  to  date  is  26.    . 

The  truth  of  this  statement  is  attested  by, 
April  i,  1744.  MARX  THOMANN,  Pastor  at  Wyla. 


No.  98.  FROM  THE  PARISH  ZELL,  AGAINST  ALL  WARNINGS  AND 
ADMONITIONS,  THERE  LEFT  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  GOING  TO 
PENNSYLVANIA,  CAROLINA,  ETC.,  THE  FOLLOWING  PERSONS: 


August  29,  1734 

Hans  Ott,   Rudi's  son,   from   Under- 

Langenhard,    unmarried   help-mate. 

Jacob    Weckerli,    schoolmaster's    son, 

unmarried. 
Boy  from  Zell. 

Oberlangenhardt. 
Hans  Conradt  Zuppinger. 
Babelj  Meyer,  March  19,  1689. 
Children: 

Margetlj,  July  12,  1718. 

Hans  Uerech,  September  20,  1722. 

Heinrich,  February  19,  1730. 

Hans  Caspar,  December  21,  1732. 
Abraham  Weckerling. 
Catrj  Meylj,  April  13,  1705. 
Children: 

Verena,  January  7,  1731. 

Wilpert. 

Hans  Ulrich  Niiszlj,  April  5,  1705. 

A  man  who  with  his  wife  Margreth  Boszhardt  led  a  wicked  life,  and  from  vexation 
left  with  the  above. 

Zell. 

Hans  Ulrich  Naff,  July  25,  1709. 
Hans  Ulrich's  son,  unmarried. 
Hans  Rudj  Ramp,  Jacob's  son,  baptized  February  14,  1717,  unmarried. 


September  8,  1734 

Lisabeth  Ott,  deceased  Rudi's  daughter 
from  Kollbrunnen,  baptized  December 
20,  1726. 

Heinrich  Hoffman,  March  7,  1697. 

Susanna  Meyer,  April  26,  1705. 

Children: 

1.  Verena,  December  18,  1719. 

2.  Anna  Babelj,  January  26,  1721. 

3.  Hans  Urech,  August  8,  1723. 

4.  Adelheit,  November  4,  1725. 

5.  Rudj,  June  12,  1731. 

6.  Susanelj,  November  4,  1733. 


100  LISTS  OF   SWISS   EMIGRANTS 

Bernhardt  Purer,  September  19,  1697. 
Babelj  Zuppinger,  August  8,  1697. 
Children: 

1.  Heinrich,  July  6,  1631. 

2.  Hans  Rudolff,  January  27,  1737. 

A/r      •    ,  T  i  ("Caspar  Peter,  October  27,  1698. 

Married  July  17,  1722^         *\  .'         „  .      '' 

L  Maria  Zuppinger,  February  28,  1699. 

Children: 

1.  Hans  Jacob,  March  4,  1723. 

2.  Caspar,  August  13,  1724. 

3.  Rudolf,  December  25,  1728. 

4.  Margeth,  September  9,  1734. 

5.  Anna,  January  19,  1738. 

A/r      •  j  A  f  Hans  Ulrich  Miiller.  Tune  9,  171=5. 

Married  August  20,  17371  r,    , 

I  Barbara  Jsler,  July  8,  1710. 

Child: 

Heinrich,  October  27,  1737. 
Maria  Miiller,  Hans  Urech's  sister,  baptized  February  5,  1719.     She  went  with 

him,  but  because  she  regretted  it,  she  returned  after  a  few  days;    is  now  in 

service  in  Zurich. 

In  May,  1743 

Heirj  Ott,  Hans  Rudi's  (from  Underlangenhardt)  son,  unmarried. 
Jacob  Ott,  Hans  Heinrich  Ott's  legitimate  son,  unmarried. 
Magdalena  Haffner,  from  Zell. 
Heinrich  Haffner 's  daughter,  November  13,  1717. 
Maria  Ott,  deceased  Rudi's  (from  Underlangenhardt)  daughter,  March  16,  1721. 

—  ,  f  Hans  Conradt  Winkler,  from  Obi. 

February  28,  1743^  T  ,.  .,..   ..     , 

L  Hans  Jagelj  Winkler  s  son,  baptized. 

,.  f  Ulrich  Furer,  Ulrich  Furrer's  son,  baptized  August  18,  1720. 

'  (  Heirj  Ott,  tenant's  son,  unmarried. 

Total:  44. 


Plate  12 


REPRODUCTION  OF  THE  SHIP  CAPTAIN'S  LIST  OF  INHABITANTS  OF  THE  CANTON 
CF  EON,  IMPORTED  FROM  SOUTH  CAROLINA,  PHILADELPHIA,  AUGUST  26,  1735 


MOVEMENTS   OF  SWISS   EMIGRANTS   IN   THE 
AMERICAN   COLONIES 

Supplemental  to  the  preceding  records,  and  to  the  statements 
on  page  I  of  this  volume,  it  was  my  pleasure  to  find  in  Minutes  of 
the  Provincial  Council  (Pennsylvania),  Vol.  3,  p.  607,  this  record:1 
At  the  Courthouse  of  Philadia,  August  26th,  1735. 

Present : 

The  Honble  Patrick  Gordon,  Esqr.,  Lieut.  Governor  with  some  of 
the   Magistrates. 
Eighteen   Switzers,    who,    with    their    families,    making    in    all 

forty-five  Persons,  were  imported  in  the  Billinder  Oliver,  Samuel 

Merchant,  Master,  from  South  Carolina,  were  this  day  Qualified 

as  usual,  and  their  names  are  hereunto  subjoined. 

Bucher,  Hans,  Meysler,  Ulrich, 

Wanger,  Lazarus,  Stelly,  Jacob, 

Koller,  Hans,  Weber,  Christian, 

Brenholtze,  Christian,  Willem,  Ulrich, 

Pingly,  Hans  Michel,  Otter,  Johannes, 

Swalher,  Christian,  Haross,  Jacob  Wilhelm, 

Lyinburger,  Hans,  Henckels,  Pieter, 

Mauslin,  Abraham,  Lyinburger,  Hans,  junr., 

Marti,  Johannes,  Bucher,  Hans,  junr. 


PENNSYLVANIA  STATE  LIBRARY, 
HARRISBURG,  PA. 

Nov.  28,  1919. 

1  Surname  placed  first  for  easy  reference 


101 


MEMORANDA    REFERRING    TO    THE    ARRIVAL    INTO 
PHILADELPHIA  OF  SWISS  FROM  CAROLINA. 

The  Division  of  Public  Records  has  the  original  Oath  of  Alle 
giance  list  and  also  the  Ship  Captain's  list  of  the  Arrivals  in  Phila 
delphia  from  South  Carolina  referred  to  in  Volume  Three,  page 
607,  Colonial  Records.  These  lists  are  also  published  in  Rupp, 
p.  100,  and  in  the  Seventeenth  Volume  of  Second  Series,  pages  119 
and  1 20.  The  Seventeenth  Volume  of  Second  Series  was  taken 
from  the  Ship  Captain's  list  and  contains  the  names  of  the  women 
and  children,  as  well  as  of  the  men. 

I  have  made  a  careful  examination  of  all  the  lists  from  1734  to 
1744  and  find  no  other  lists  of  Immigrants  coming  to  Philadelphia 
from  South  Carolina. 

H.  H.  SHEXK, 
Custodian  of  the  Public  Records 

Correspondence  with  Dr.  Thomas  L.  Montgomery,  State 
Librarian,  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  resulted  in  receiving  from  him  photo 
graphs  of  the  original  records  connected  with  the  foregoing  emigra 
tion  of  Swiss  from  South  Carolina,  and  they  are  reproduced  (see 
Plates  12,  13,  14)  together  with  the  memoranda  from  Mr.  H.  H. 
Shenk,  Custodian  of  the  Public  Records. 

Search  in  North  Carolina,  South  Carolina,  New  York,  Maryland, 
Pennsylvania,  Louisiana,  etc.,  and  in  the  Library  of  Congress 
has  yet  failed  to  disclose  any  other  document  bearing  upon  this 
subject. 

The  extensive  Swiss  settlements  in  Louisiana  seem  to  have  been 
wholly  distinct  from  the  emigration  into  the  Atlantic  colonies. 
There  may  later  be  discovered  records  of  land  migration  from  the 
Carolinas  other  than  the  known  movements  northward  into  Vir 
ginia  and  Pennsylvania,  and  from  Pennsylvania  southward. 

GAIUS  M.  BRUMBAUGH 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  April  12,  1920 


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REPRODUCTION  OF  THE  ORIGINAL  OATH  OF  ALLEGIANCE  LIST  OF  INHABI 
TANTS  OF  THE  CANTON  OF  BERN,  IMPORTED  FROM  SOUTH  CAROLINA,  PHILA 
DELPHIA,  AUGUST  26,  1735 


INDEX 


Aarau,  53. 

Aargau,  12,  24. 

Ackeret,  Jacob,  69. 

Aeberli,  Hans  Rudolf,  of  Jacob,  93 — 
Heinrich,  37. 

Aeberlj,  Hans,  37  (3). 

Aebinger,  Hans,  14. 

Aeppli,  Aepplj,  Anna  (Fenner),  49 — 
Conrad,  65 — Elsbeth  (Hotz),  65— 
Hans,  65 — Hansz  Jacob,  49 — Hein 
rich,  65  (2) — Jacob,  49,  65  (2) — 
Johannes,  49 — Margreth,  49 — 
Rudolff,  49 — Verena  (Wetstein),  49. 

Aesch,  Aeschi,  14,  37,  56. 

Aeschlikon,  45. 

Affholteren,  26,  28,  30,  54. 

Aglionby,  envoy,  2. 

Albia,  54. 

Albracht,  vii — Anna  (Dubendorfer), 
82— Anna  (Huber),  81 — Anna  (Mer- 
ki),  8 1— Anna  (Schmid),  82— Balz, 
82— Barbara,  82 — Elsbetha  (Meyer- 
hofer),  94 — Felix,  81,  82,  84 — Hans, 
82  (2) — Hans  Heinrich,  81 — Hans 
Jacob,  8 1 — Hans  Ulrich,  82 — Hein 
rich,  82 — Heinrich  ("Kumin"),  81 — 
Jacob,  82 — Joggeli,  82 — Margaretha, 
84— Rather,  81— Vrena,  82. 

Albrecht,  Annelj,  87 — Barbara,  87 — 
Barbara  (Bucher),  33 — Felix,  87 — 
Hans  Jacob,  87 — Jacob,  87 — Jacob 
(Wageli),  87 — Johannes,  87 — Mar 
greth  87 — Margreth  (Moor),  87— 
Margretha,  95 — Regina,  87 — Regula, 
87— Verena,  87. 

Allegiance,  Oath  of,  Plates  12,  14. 

Alpen-Baur  (Dunki),  76. 

Alsace,  48,  65. 


Alltstatten,  Altstetten,  26,  31,  79 

Alten,  32 

Altikon,  27,  30 

Altlicken,  32. 

Altorffer,    Anna    (Frener),    36 — Hans 

Jacob,   35— Jacob,  35— Kaspar,   35, 

36 — Leonard,  36 — Verena  (Brunner) 

36. 
American  Historical  Review,-  III,  VII, 

i,  6. 

Americana  Germanica,  VII. 
Amerikanischer  Wegweiser  oder  Kurtze, 

etc.,  Ochs,  2. 
Ammann,  Anna,  45 — Jacob,  30 — Jbhan- 

nes  Caspar,  66 — Ulrich,  45. 
Anabaptists,  2,  3. 
Andelfingern,  27,  32,  51,  55,  89 — Klein, 

32,  33- 
Angst,     Adam,     32 — Anderson,     72— 

Barbara    (Rass)    32 — Barbara    (Sig- 

erist)   72 — Elisabetha,  32  (2) — Hans 

Ulrich,  72 — Heinrich,  32. 
Appenzell,  6. 

Appert,  Regula  (Frey),  90. 
Arburg,  78. 

Archives,  Penna.,  2d  Series,  102. 
Arminger,  H.,  63. 
Atlikon,  32. 
Atterley    (Attersen?),    Johannes,    Pis. 

12,  13,  14 — Margat,  PI.  13. 
Auer,  Felix,  81 — Hans,  82   (2) — Hans 

Ulrich,  8 1   (2)— Verena  (Eberhardt) 

8 1 — Vronegg  (Lange),  83. 
Augst,  26 

Auspurger,  Samuel,  51. 
Austria,  70 — War  of  Succession,  7. 
Auw,  98. 
Avis — Blattlin  (Intelligencer),  22. 


1  Except  where  names  are  given,  references  to  wife  and  children  are  omitted. 
Figures  in  parenthesis  (3)  mean  that  the  name  occurs  that  number  of  times  on 
the  indicated  page. 

Minor  variations  in  spelling  occur  where  different  persons  make  the  reports, 
as:  Alt-statten,  Alttstatten,  Ringger,  Ringer,  etc.,  but  the  Index  presents  the 
material  variations. 

The  indefiniteness  of  knowledge  of  destination  should  cause  the  reader  to 
carefully  scrutinize  all  the  "Lists"  for  names  being  sought. 

The  managing  editor  will  appreciate  word  of  any  error  discovered  in  the  index, 
which  he  has  carefully  prepared.  G.  M.  B. 

103 


104 


INDEX 


Avis-blatter,  Bern  &  Lausanne,  22. 
Azenweiler,  Madalena  (Huszer),  52. 

Bachenbiilach,  38. 

Bachmann, — ,  76 — Anna,  36 — Anna 
Hinen,  36 — Anna  (Kreysz),  30 — 
Anna  (Mantz),  64 — Barbara,  42 — 
Felix,  36 — Hans  Casper,  36 — Hans 
Jacob,  36 — Heinrich,  36 — Jacob,  36, 
48 — Johannes  of  George,  50 — Regula 
(Morff),  36— Rudolff,  36,  75  (2)— 
Susanna  (Ringger),  36 — 

Bachofen,  Cleophela  (Wolgemuth),  91 
— Hans  Jacob,  91 — Johannes,  75. 

Bachs,  28,  33,  68,  98. 

Baden,  38,  77,  78 — Durlach,  85. 

Baggenstross,  Baggenstrosz,  Hans,  74 
— Hans  Jacob,  73,  74 — Hans  Ulrich, 
73  (2) — Heinrich,  73 — Johannes,  73, 
74 — Susanna,  73 — Susanna  (Baur), 
73 — Verena,  73. 

Baltensberger,    Barbara    (Sommer), 
Hans  Heinrich,  Lisabeth,  38. 

Balthaser,  Regula  (Bersinger),  94. 

Baninger,  Abraham,  38. 

Bank,  42 — Banken,  36,  90. 

Bannertrager,  16. 

Banninger,  Elsbeth  (Widmer),  63 — 
Jacob,  49 — Peter,  48 — Ulrich,  48, 

49- 

Bantli,  Jacob  of  Rudolff,  66. 
Baptists,  2. 
Bar,    VII— Anna,    58— Bat.    Rudolff, 

58 — Hans   Heinrich,    58 — Hans  and 

Heinrich    of    Heinrich,     71 — Jacob, 

41 — Johannes,     58 — Rudolff,     58 — 

Verena,  58. 
Baretschweil,  28,  34. 
Basel,  v,  6,  10,  n,  13,  21,  22,  38,  43, 

53,    56,    63,    65,    88,    90,    91— Lists, 

VIII. 
Easier,   Anna    (Baumer)   and   Conrad, 

31- 

Basserstorff  (Bassustorf),  28,  34,  36,  61 

Bauder — Albis,  54. 

Bauer,  Anna,  Barbara  (Miiller),  Hein 
rich  (2),  80. 

Bauma,  28,  59. 

Baumann,  Anna  (Tobler),  92 — Hans 
Heinrich,  92 — Susanna  (Furrer),  95. 

Baumer,  Anna  (Easier),  31 — Barbel 
(Miiller),  Felix,  Rudolph,  30. 

Baumgartner,  Andreas,  94  (4) — Anna, 
94  (3) — Anna  Barbara,  94 — Barbara, 


94  (2) — Barbara  (Griesser),  94 — 
Barbara  (Meyer),  94 — Christofell, 
94 — Cleophea,  94 — Elsabeth,  94 — 
Heinrich,  94  (4) — Margreth  (Busin- 
ger),  94 — Maria,  94 — Mathias,  94— 
Rudolff,  94,  95. 

Baur,    Alpen    (Diinki),    76 — Elizabeth 
(Sigerist),    74 — Heinrich    of    Jacob, 
74 — Susanna  (Baggenstosz)  73. 
Bechtold,  Barbara,  Fronnyk  (Keiser), 

Magdalena,  Ulrich,  46. 
Beerly,  Elsbeth  (Gut),  37: 
Belon,  Magdalena  (Theiler),  92. 
Belz,  Catharina  (Schwenk),  75. 
Benken,  27. 
Bentz,  Felix,  48. 
Benz,  Verena  (Schellenberg),  93. 
Berg,  27,  42,  45,   51,   59,   69— Berg- 
Kirch,  IV. 
Berlin,  77. 

Bern,  V.  2,  4,  6,  7,  8,  9,  13,  17,  21,  24, 
51,  57,  Plates  12,  14 — Council  of, 
2,  3— Lists,  VIII. 

Bernhardt,  Anna,  Cleophea,  Hans 
(2),  Hans  Heinrich,  34 — Verena 
(Meisterhans),  32. 

Bersinger, — 99 — Fe  lix,    M  a  r  g  r  e  t  h  a 
(Baumgartner)     and     Regula     (Bal 
thaser),     94 — Margaretha     (Meyer- 
hoffer),  83. 
Bertschi,   Dorothea   (Darer),   Elssbeth 

of  Hans,  Hans  of  Felix,  68. 
Bertschj,  Anna  (Gaszmann),  40 
Bertschiken,  53. 

Bertschinger,  Anna  Barbara  (Schaub), 
32 — Barbara  (Gimpert),  62 — Mar- 
gareth  Gutkonecht),  67— Susan  n 
(Scherer),  67. 

Beriither,  Barbara  (Widmer),  60. 
Bible,  4,  5,  10. 
Bieler,  44. 

Billender  Oliver,  Plates  12,  14. 
Binder     Barbara,      Barbara      (Leiiw), 
Elsbeth,  Hans  Heinrich,  Hans  Ulrich 
(3),  Jacob,   Magdalena,   Magdalena 
(Mokli),  Rudolff,  Susann,  Theothel, 
Ursula  (Spallinger),  64. 
Binz,  66. 
Birchwil,  35. 
Birmenstorf,  26,  37. 
Bischoff,  Hans  Jacob,  Rodolff,  etc.,  50. 
Blaar,  Barbara  (Keller),  92. 
Black  Forest  (Baden),  38. 
Blatman,  Christoffel,  Chrestophel,  Els- 


INDEX 


105 


beth  (Hoffman),  Hans  Heinrich, 
Hans  Ulrich,  Jaroh-  Rudoiff,  80. 

Blatter,  Adam,  Andreas  (2),  Barbara, 
Barbara  (Erzinger),  Johannes  (2), 
Laurenz,  Magdalena,  Margretha 
(Wuhrmann),  Maria  (Dietrich), 
Verena  (2),  42. 

Blauler,  Bleiiwler,  Sarah  (Keller),  63. 

Bleiiler,  Barbara  (Huber),  85 — Felix, 
54 — Johannes  of  Hans  Heinrich, 
53— Verena  (Pfister),  33. 

Blickenstorffer,  Blikenstorffer,  Anna 
(Frauenf elder),  57 — Barbara  (Frey), 

37- 

Blumetshalder,  43,  69. 

Bodmen,  50. 

Bodmer,  Cleophea,  Hans,  Heinrich 
and  Regula,  50 — Hans  Rodolf,  Re- 
gula  (Gachnang),  49. 

Bolsterlj,  Verena  (Miiller),  31. 

Bonstatten,  26 — Bonnstetten,  37. 

Boop,  Elsbeth  (Meyer),  72. 

Bosserth,  Hansz  Heinrich,  Jacob,  Ru- 
dolff,  and  Ursel,  49,  50. 

Bosshart,  Boszhart,  Anna  (Schaub), 
45 — Barbara,  50 — Elsbeth  (Wur 
man),  97 — Hansz  Heinrich,  98 — 
Hans  Ulrich,  50 — Heinrich,  45  (2), 
50 — Kaspar,  45 — Margreth  (Nuszli), 
99— Ragula  (Miiller),  68. 

Brabant,  96. 

Braitter,  Regula  (Keiser),  46. 

Bram,  Felix  and  Heirj,  86 — Regula 
(Vrener),  33. 

Brandenberger,  Barbara  (Hegj),  97. 

Brandli,  Anna  (Fritschi),  77. 

Brandtlen,  Vrena,  61. 

Bratscher,   Ragula   (Kolliker),   IV,   59. 

Bratschger,  Elizabeth  (Frauenfelder), 
56. 

Brauch,  Hans  Jacob  of  Hans  Conrad, 

54- 

Brauen,  Christen,  18. 
Brauslen,  60. 
Brenholts,   Brenholtze,   Christian,   Pis. 

12-14,   101 — Ann,  Pis.  12-14. 
Bretscher,     Anna,     32 — Anna     (Wetz- 

stein),  43 — Heinrich,  43. 
Brumbaugh,      Gaius     Marcus,     VIII, 

102,  Index. 
Bruncker,    Abraham,    Andreas,    Hans 

Conrad,  Hans  Heinrich,  Hans  Ulrich, 

Jacob,  Maria  Lisabeth,  Regula  (Her- 

ter),  48. 


Brungger,  Margreth  (Gut)  and  Ru- 
dolff,  91. 

Briinig  Pass,  15. 

Brunner,  Abraham,  36 — Anna  (Ernin), 
45 — Anna  (Kern),  36 — Anna  Mar 
greth,  36 — Anna  (Meyer),  36 — 
Barbara  (Redinger),  36 — Barbel 
(Kern),  68 — Caspar,  89 — Christen, 
19 — David,  36 — Dean,  36 — Elisa 
beth  (Wunderli),  66 — Elsabetha 
(Geyer),  45— Elsbeth  (Frolj)  40— 
Felix,  36 — Hans,  35,  36 — Hansz 
Conrad,  46 — Hans  Heinrich,  35 — 
Hans  Jacob,  36  (2),  65 — Hans 
Ulrich,  36,  45,  68 — Heinrich,  34,  36, 
45,  65 — Jacob,  34— Kilian,  36 — 
Regula  (Egli),  50— Rudoiff,  36,  45— 
Salome  (Hursel),  35 — S  u  s  a  n  n  a 
(Ernj),  72 — Ulrich,  36,  45 — Vre 
(Jeglj),  80 — Verena  (Altorffer),  36. 

Brutten,  27,  38,  69. 

Bubikon,  28,  38. 

Buch,  27,  51,  69. 

Buchberg,  12. 

Bucher,  Buecher  Booker,  Anna,  95 — 
Anna  (Lang),  95 — Benj.  13 — Caspar, 
95 — Christina,  13 — Hans  Conrad, 
32 — Hans  Heinrich,  95 — Hansz,  95 
(2),  101  (2),  Pis.  12-14 — Heinrich, 
95 — Jacob,  32,  51 — John,  Plate  12, 
13 — Margaretha  (Hauser),  95 — 
Margaretha  (Meyer),  95 — Verena, 

95- 

Biichi,  Anna  Barbara,  47 — Anna  Bar 
bara  (Hegnauer),  47 — Barbara  (He- 
getschweiler),  91 — Caspar,  47  (2) — 
Hans  Jacob,  47 — Hans  Ulrich,  47 — 
Heinrich,  47 — Johannes,  89 — Lisa 
beth  (Keller),  47— Margaretha,  4 — 7 
Maria,  47 — Rudolph,  46,  89 — Ulrich, 

47- 

Buchman,  Anna,  47 — Elsbeth  of  Jogli, 
67 — Hansz  Conrad  and  Hansz  Ul 
rich,  47 — Heinrich,  47 — Jacob,  47 
(2),  67 — Joachim,  47 — Margaretha, 
47 — Margaretha  (Schwizler),  47 — 
Salomon,  47. 

Buchsz,  40. 

Biieler,  John  Randolff,  45. 

Buessingen,  57. 

Buhlmann,  Anna  (Susztrunk),  97. 

Bulach,  38. 

Calais,  France,  15. 


106 


INDEX 


Cappel,  33. 

Cappeler,  Anna  (Gering),  77 — Elsbeth 

(Biichi),    48— Heinrich,    48— Ruedi, 

49 — Rudi,  48. 
Carnegie  Institution,  III. 
Carolina,  III,  IV,  V,  VIII,  9,  13,  22, 

23,  26,  29,  43,  51  and  numerous  other 

references    in    the    List    Headings. 

26 — 100. 

Catholic  church,  2,  5,  12,  24. 
Census  of  emigrants,  26 — 100. 
Chlyriidis,  37. 
Christholds  Gedanken,  bey  Anlasz  Be- 

•wegung,  etc. 
Churches,    10 — Baptists,    2 — Catholic, 

2,    5,    12,    24 — Protestant,    2,    12— 

Reformed,  10,  79 — Uster,  90. 
Chym,  Ursula,  56. 
Citizens  rights,  89,  90. 
dingier,  Johannes,  30. 
Coller,  Jacob,  Plate  13. 
Colonial  Records,  101,  102. 
Cornell  University,  VIII. 
Court  marriage,  90. 
Cunz/Anna,  Elisabeth,  Elszbeth  (Lang), 

Hans,  (2),  Hans  Jacob,  Peter  Heiri, 

Ragula,  Veronica,  83 — see  Kunz. 

D — .  Rev.  Pastor  in  Flaach,  51. 

Dachlesen,  67. 

Dagerlen,  27,  42,  45,  91. 

Dallikon,  28. 

Dallweil,  26. 

Dandert,  Anna   (Dunki),  76. 

Dandliker,  44. 

Daniker,  John  Heinrich,  53 — Salomon, 

79- 
Danni,    Catharine    (Drachssler),    and 

Susanna  (Wolffensperger)  53. 
Danzler,    Jacob    (3),    Hans    Rudolff, 

Magdalena     (Pfister),     Margaretha, 

44- 

Dappeler,  Anna   Barb.     (Naff),  92. 
Darer,  Dorothea  (Bertschi)  and  Hans, 

68. 
Das  verlangte  und  nicht  erlangte  Canaan, 

etc.,  23. 

Dattlikon,  VI,  27,  43,  69. 
Dauphine,  92. 

Decrees,  or  mandates,  V,  7,  1 1 . 
Deebrunner,  Margretha  (Widmer),  97. 
Dellickon,  43. 
Demuth,  Bachschlj,  98. 
Dentzler,    Denzler,    Anna    (Wegstein) 


60 — Barbara  (Kuhn),  63 — Conradt, 

60. 

Dependency,  29. 
Der  Hinckende  Bott  von  Carolina,  etc., 

23- 
Der  Nunmehro  in  der  Neuen  Welt,  etc., 

23- 

Detwyl,      71. 

Die  Bernische  Auswandenmg  nach 
Amerika,  etc.,  12,  24. 

Diebolzau,  89. 

Dielstorff,  44. 

Dierauer,  Johannes,  7. 

Dietlikon,  28,  36,  44. 

Dietrich,  Anna  (Wipf),  64 — Jacob, 
80 — Maria  (Blatter),  42— Wilhelm, 
80. 

Dietschj,  Anna  (Merkj),  30. 

Dolder,  Dorothea  (Haab),  66. 

Dorff,  27,  50,  69. 

Dorfflingen,  27. 

Dorlikon,  30. 

Drachssler,  Drachszler,  Catharina 
(Danni),  53 — Heinrich,  53 — Magda 
lena,  54. 

Driillikon,  27. 

Diibendorff,  28,  44. 

Dubendorffer,  Abraham  (Krebser),  35 
— Anna  (Krebser),  35 — Anna  (Al- 
bracht),  82 — Hans  Jacob  (Krebser), 
35 — Hans  (Kueffer)  35 — Heinrich, 
35  (2)— Heinrich  (Hugen),  34— 
Kilian  (Krebser),  35—  Verena  (Wid 
mer),  35. 

Du'nki,  Anna,  Anna  (Dandert),  Barbel 
(Rietiker),  Cathari,  Conradt  (Alpen 
— Baur),  Heinrich  (2),  Jacob,  Jacobli, 
76. 

Dups,  Barbara  (Wyss),  Hans,  Hans 
Jacob  (Heiri's),  Verena  (Ottlis),  29 

Durlach,  32. 

Diirnen,  n. 

Durnten,  Durnthen,  28,  44. 

Dutweiler,  Duttweiler,  Anna  (Kunz), 
33 — Barbara,  39 — Catharina,  80— 
Ehegaumer,  80 — Elisabeth  (Schmid), 
83 — Hans,  39,  80 — Hans  Jacob,  95 — 
Jacob,  80 — Magdalena  (Huggenber- 
ger),  45- 

Dynhart,  27,  45. 

Eberhardt,  Anna  (Meyer),  95 — Bar 
bara  of  Felix,  61 — Ragula,  68— 
Verena  ((Auer),  81. 


INDEX 


107 


Ebertschwyl,  54. 

Ebmattingen,  65. 

Effretikon,  36,  61. 

Egg,  28,  71 — Catharina,  51 — Rudolff 
of  Hans  Rudolff,  65. 

Egli,  Anna,  Barbara,  Caspar,  Hans 
Jacob,  Heinrich,  Maria  (Kagi),  Re- 
gula,  Salomon,  50. 

Eglisau,  V,  23,  28,  45,  99. 

Egliss,  Jacob  Miiller,  70. 

Egolff,  Elsbetha  (Pfister),  Hans  Ru 
dolff  (2),  71. 

Ehrensperger,  Anna,  80. 

Ehrlibach,  26 

Eigenheer,  Regula  (Sigg),  33. 

Elg,  Elgg,  27,  46,  47,  69. 

Elliker,  Anna,  Anna  (Wirz),  Caspar 
(2),  Hans  Heinrich,  Lisabeth,  Vio- 
land,  62. 

Elsau,  27,  48. 

Embrach,  27,  35,  36,  48,  49,  69. 

Emigration  census,  26-100 — statistics, 
24  to  26 — tax,  VII,  II,  66,  71,  88. 

Enderli,  Anna  (Keller),  Hans  Heinrich 
(Schorulis),  Heinrich,  Regula,  35. 

Endhorj,  39. 

Engel,  Verena  (Gaszmann),  40. 

Engeler,  Anna  (Wieland),  88. 

England,  3,  9,  17,  19,  89. 

Engstringen,  79. 

Epprecht,  Anna,  31 — Anna  (Griigis), 
31 — Conrad,  29 — Elisabeth,  31 — 
Hans  Heinrich,  29 — Heirj,J29 — Jacob, 
29,  31 — Johannes,  29 — Margreth,  31 
— Rudolph,  31 — Verena,  31. 

Erb,  Hans  Rudi,  n. 

Erlenbach,  49. 

Ernin,  Anna  (Brunner),  45. 

Ernj,  Babelj,  Heinrich,  Susanna  (Brun 
ner),  72. 

Ernst,  Elsbetha  (Weydmann),  Felix, 
43- 

Eroffnungsrede,  gehalten  in  der  Hel- 
vetischen,  etc.,  7. 

Erzinger,  Barbara,  42 — Barbara  (Blat 
ter)  42 — Barbara  (Hermetschwyler), 
59 — Bernhardin,  42 — Elsbeth  (Tob- 
ler),  62 — Hans,  62 — Hans  Jacob,  62 
— Hans  Rudolff,  62 — Maria,  62 — 
Regula,  62. 

Esch,  65. 

Eschenmosen,  39. 

Estate,  Feudal,  63 — Staffen,  60 — 
Tetnau,  88. 


Eszlinger,  Matthew,  41. 
Ettenhausen,  36. 

Fahrli,  78,  79. 

Fallanden,  28,  49,  50. 

Fasi,    Dean,    58— Elsbeth    (Zollicker), 

48 — Heinrich,     60 — John,      50 — Jo- 

hann,  57. 
Faust,  Dr.  Albert  B.,  Ill,  VIII,  i,  70, 

79- 

Federal  Emigration  Bureau,  Bern,  25. 
Feehr,  Fehr,  Feer,  Altorff,  28 — Anna 

(Hartmann),  45 — Conrad,  51 — Jacob 

51— John,  72. 
Fehraltorff,  91. 
Felden,  69. 
Feldheim,  69. 
Feller,  Christen,  19. 
Feitheim,  27.  . 
Fenner,      Anna      (Aepplj)      49 — Anna 

(Hamming),     65 — Felix,     65     (2) — 

Hans    Caspar,    65 — Hans    Heinrich, 

65- 

Feuerthalen,  27. 
Fischenthal,  28,  50. 
Fischer,  Susanna  (Gachnang),  50. 
Fissler,  Jacob,  etc.,  51. 
Flach,  69. 
Flanders,  58. 
Flaach,  27,  51. 

Foster,  Verena  (Wismann),  61. 
Fralj,  Junghans  and  Verena  (Huber), 

39- 

France,  15,  25 — Army,  63,  75 — Revolu 
tion,  6,  63. 

Frankfurt,  77. 

Frauenfelder,  Anna,  55,  56  (3),  57— 
Anna  (Blickenstorffer)  57 — Anna 
Wegstein),  60 — Anna  (Weyer),  55 
—Barbara,  55  (2),  56  (2),  57— 
Barbara  (Hagenbucher),  67 — Bar 
bara  (Miiller),  55 — Baschi,  57 — 
Conrad,  55— David,  55,  57— Deyes, 
55 — Elisabeth  (Bratschger),  56 — 
Elsbeth,  55,  56 — Elsbetha  (Mader), 
56 — Elsbetha  (Meyer  von  Buech), 
55 — Felix  son  of  Felix,  56 — Grazli, 
57 — Hans  Conrad,  55 — Hans  Con 
rad's  of  Baschi,  57 — Hans  Heinrich, 
56 — Hans  Jacob,  57  (3) — Hans  Jacob 
of  Graz,  57 — Hans  Jacob  (Pfeiffer), 
55 — Hans  Peter,  57 — Hans  Ulrich, 
57  (2)— Heinrich,  55— Isaac,  57— 
Jacob,  55,  57— Jacob  (Gabriel)  55— 


108 


INDEX 


Jacob  (Grazli),  55 — Johannes,  55 
(2)— Jonas,  55— Joseph,  57  (2)— 
Mathias,  55,  61 — Pantaleon,  56 — 
Ursula,  55,  56 — Verena  (Schaub), 

55- 

Frener,  Anna  (Altorffer),  36. 

Freiidweiler,  John  Caspar,  48. 

Frey,  VII,  26 — Anna  Barbara,  90 — 
Anna  (Schaub),  32 — Barbara,  98 — 
Barbara  (Blikenstorffer),  37 — Cas 
par  of  Felix,  71 — Elsbetha,  90 — 
Elsbeth  (Keller),  51— Elsbeth  (Leh- 
men),  74 — Lisabeth  (Zollinger),  53 — 
Elsbeth  (von  Tobel),  71 — Felix, 
37,  71 — Hans  Heinrich,  37 — Hans 
Jacob,  98 — Heinrich,  90  (2) — Jacob, 
37,  90 — J.  H.  (Pastor),  92 — Regula 
(Appert),  90. 

Freyenstein,  76. 

Freyhofer,  Hans  Ulrich  &  Verena,  69 

Fribourg,  6. 

Frick,  VII— Elsbetha,  54— Jacob,  58. 

Friedrichsthal,  85. 

Friesz,  Frena  (Volkert),  39. 

Frik,  Anna,  62 — Anna  Barbara,  of 
Heinrich,  62 — Anneli,  6l — Caspar, 
of  Ulrich,  61 — Elssbeth,  of  Ulrich, 
62 — Johannes,  62 — Rudolf,  of  Felix, 
62 — Ursula  of  Caspar,  62 — Veronica 
(Hitz),  61. 

Fritschi,  VII,  Anna  (Brandli),  77— 
Anneli,  77 — Babeli,  76 — Barbara 
(Miiller),  69 — Clephee  Babli,  77 — 
Conradt'  76 — Elsbeethli,  76 — Hein 
rich,  76,  77 — Heirechli,  76 — Ragel 
(Hiltibrand),  76— Rodolf,  76— Vree- 
neli,  77. 

Froli,  Frolj,  Anna,  86 — Anna  (Huber), 
86 — Barbara,  40 — Elsbeth  (Brun- 
ner),  40 — Hans  Heirj,  86 — Hans 
Jacob,  40,  86 — Hanss,  of  Ulrich, 
68 — Heirj,  86 — Magdalena  (Gasz- 
man),  39. 

Purer,  Furrer,  Anna  Maria,  95 — 
Babelj  (Zuppinger),  100 — Barbara, 
95 — Bernhardt,  100 — Felix,  95 — 
Hans,  95 — Hans  Felix,  95 — Hans 
Jacob,  95 — Hans  Rudolff,  100 — 
Heinrich,  95,  100 — Heirj  (Ott),  100 — 
Susann  (Grob),  41 — Susanna,  95 — 
Susanna  (Baumann),  95 — Ulrich, 
100  (2). 

Gabriel,  Jacob  (Frauenfelder),  55. 


Gachnang,  Christoph,  Heinrich,  Salo 
mon,  and  Susanna  (Fischer),  50 — 
Regula  Bodner),  49. 

Gallman,  Anna,  of  Heini,  67. 

Gass,  Martin,  u. 

Gasser,  Pastor,  10. 

Gassman,  Gaszman,  Anna,  68 — Anna 
(Bertschj),  40 — Anna  Catharina,  40 
— Babelj  (Pfister),  40 — Barbara,  39 
— Catharina,  68 — Hans,  40,  68 — 
Hans  Heinrich,  39 — Hans  Jacob, 
40 — Hans  Martin,  40 — Heinrich,  49 
(2) — Magdalena  Frolj,  39 — Verena 
(Engel),  40. 

Geiigesz,  Adam,  Anna,  Barbara,  Hans 
Conrad,  Hans  Ulrich,  Heinrich, 
Johannes,  Susanna  (Miiller),  42. 

Georgia,  9. 

Gering,  Anna  (Cappeler),  Catharina, 
Conrad,  Hans  Conrad,  Heinrich  (2), 
Jacob,  Johannes,  77 — Margareth 
Waber,  78. 

German  American  Annals,  VIII. 

German  Element  in  the  U.  S.,  VIII. 

German  and  Swiss  Settlements  of 
Colonial  Penna.,  VII,  VIII. 

German  population,  VIII,  I,  25. 

Germantown,  Pa.,  46,  69. 

Geschichte  der  Schweizerischen,  etc.,   7. 

Geschichte  der  Bernischen  Taufer,  3. 

Geszner,  Hans  Ulrich,  36. 

Geyer,  Elsbetha  (Brunner),  45. 

Gilg,  Cilian,  Regul  of  Chlyjoggen,  37. 

Gimpert,  Anna,  Barbara,  Barbara 
(Bertschinger),  Heinrich,  Johannes 
(2),  Lisabeth,  62. 

Gischberger,  Anna,  Rudolph,  Ursula, 
42. 

Glarus,  87,  98. 

Glatlj,  Catharj  (Huber),  Felix,  Hein 
rich,  Heinrich  of  Caspar,  37. 

Glatfelden,  28,  51. 

Glatfelder,  Anna,  Anna  Margareth, 
Barbara,  Caspar,  Elsbetha,  Felix, 
Lisabeth  (Lauffer),  Hans  Peter, 
Hans  Rudolf,  Johannes,  Salomea 
am  Berg  (Walder?),  Salomon,  52. 

Gordon,  Patrick,  101,  Plates  12,  14. 

Gossau,  27,  53,  95. 

Gossweiler,  Goszweiler,  Hans  Heinrich, 
8 1 — Magdalena  (Wurman),  97. 

Gottschi,  Heinrich,  6l — Pastor,  22,  23. 

Graff,  Graaff,  Ann  (Schweizer),  72 — 
Barbara,  73 — Franz,  73  (2) — Hans 


INDEX 


109 


Jacob,  72,  73 — Hans  Ulrich,  73 — 
Jacob,  60,  J.  H.  Graf,  2 — Johannes, 
73  (2) — Regula  (Rebsamen),  88 — 
Susanna,  73 — Verena  of  Hans,  74. 

Graffenreid,  Christoph  von,  VIII, 
i,  3 — Manuscripts,  21. 

Graubiinden,  9,  12,  24. 

Grazli  Jacob  (Frauenfelder),  55. 

Great  Britain,  Plate  12. 

Grecno,  (Greene?)  Appleney  (2),  Plate 

13- 

Greiffensee,  28,  53. 

Grendelmejer,  Anna,  41 — Barbara,  41 
— Elsbeth,  41 — Felix,  41 — Hans 
Jacob,  40 — Hans  Rudolff,  40 — Hein- 
rich,  40,  41 — Margeth,  40,  41 — 
Ursula,  40 — Vrena  (Meyer),  41. 

Griesser,  Barbara  (Baumgartner),  94. 

Grindelwald,  16  to  19. 

Grob,  Anna  (Schleipffer),  58 — Hans, 
29 — Heinrich  of  Julius,  54 — Jacob, 
41 — Jacob  of  Hans,  90 — Susan  (Fur- 
rer),  41. 

Grosholtz,  67. 

Gross,  Barbara  (Stadli),  Felix,  Hans 
Conrad,  Hans  Ulrich,  Heinrich, 
Lisabeth,  Rudolf  (2),  38. 

Griigis,  Anna  (Epprecht),  31. 

Grundel,  Hans  Jacob,  of  Jacob,  60. 

Gru'ningen,  27,  44,  65. 

Gugler,  Conrad,  51. 

Guide  to  the  Materials  for  American 
History  in  the  Swiss  and  Austrian 
Archives,  Faust,  III,  2,  4,  5,  6,  8,  9, 

II,   12,   19,  2O,  22,  23,  24. 

Gut,  Caspar,  96 — Elsbeth  (Beerlj), 
37 — Hans,  37 — Johannes,  of  Hein 
rich,  71 — Margaretha,  37 — Mar- 
greth  (Briingger),  91. 

Guth,  Anna   (Scherrer),  Heinrich,  53. 

Gutnecht,  Andreas,  Barbara,  Elsbeth, 
Heinrich,  Johannes,  Margareth  (Bert 
schinger),  Marten,  Susanna,  67. 

Gyger,  Elsbeth  (Habltizel),  Herman,  89. 

Haab,    Andreas,     Barbara,     Dorothea 

(Dolder),     Hans     Jacob,     Heinrich, 

Regula,  66. 
Haab    (?),    Hans    Rodolff,    Heinrich, 

Rodolff,  59. 

Habliizel,  Elsbeth  (Gyger),  89. 
Haffner,    Dorothea    (Wagmann),   60 — 

Hans,  37 — Heinrich,  100 — Lisabeth, 

37 — Magdalena,  100. 


Hagenbuch,  Anna,  32 — Hans  Heinrich, 
42 — Jacob,  32,  42  (2) — Johannes 
(2),  Junghansz,  Margretha,  Mar- 
gretha  (Schmid),  Ulrich,  42. 

Hagenbucher,  Barbara,  Elsbeth,  Hans 
Ulrich,  Magdalena,  Margareth,  67. 

Hagj,  Barbel,  Hans  Jacob,  Jacob, 
Johannes,  Ragul,  Vrenelj,  41. 

Hagmann,  Hans  Ulrich,  46. 

Hakab,  36. 

Haller,  Barbara,  Elsbeth  (Naff),  Hans 
Georg,  93. 

Hallesche  Nachrichten,  79. 

Hammig,  Anna  (Fenner),  65. 

Hansler,  Hans  Conrad  of  Kestl,  74. 

Hanslj,    Barbel    (Schwarzenbach),    44. 

Haross,  Narosk,  Jacob  Wilhelm,  Pis. 
12-14,  101 — Mary,  PI.  13. 

Harrisburg,  Pa.,  101,  102. 

Hartmann,  Anna  Barbara,  Anna  Cath- 
arina,  Anna  (Fehr),  Hans  Jacob, 
Heinrich,  Ulrich,  45 — Regula 
(Schneider),  46. 

Hasenfraz,  Anna  (Meyer),  30. 

Hasli,  17. 

Haszler,  Conrad,  78. 

Haug,  Barbara,  30 — Farber,  29 — 
Johannes,  67 — Leonhard,  29 — Ru 
dolff,  29 — Uli,  29,  30. 

Hausen,  26. 

Hauser,  Anna  Barbara,  49 — Barbara, 
49 — Christop,  49 — Kaspar,  11  — 

Margreth  (Buecher),  95. 

Haussli,  Elsbeth  (Ochssner),  Heinrich, 
Jacob,  Joachim,  63. 

Haussrad,  Alexander,  71. 

Haws  (Naws?),  Mary,  PI.  13. 

Hedingen,  26,  57. 

Hedinger,  Elseli  of  Heiri,  57 — Eva, 
37— Hans,  37. 

Heffertschweil,  67. 

Hegetschweiler,  Anna,  71,  91 — Anna 
Barbara,  91 — Barbara  (Buchmann), 
91 — Beat  (Rudolff),  91 — Hans  Hein 
rich,  91 — Hans  Ulrich,  71 — Heinrich, 
71,  91  (2) — Jacob,  91 — Margaretha, 
91 — Susanna,  91 — Verena,  91. 

Hegi,  Hegj,  Barbara  (Brandenberger), 
97 — Hans  Jacob,  97 — Jacob,  97 — 
Johann  Caspar,  68 — Rudolf,  97  (2) — 
Suszanna,  97. 

Hegin,  Anna,  33. 

Hegnauer,  Anna  Barbara  (Biichi), 
47- 


110 


INDEX 


Heinrich,  Barbara,  Elsbeth,  Hans, 
Hans  George,  Hans  Jacob,  88. 

Heiri,  Peter  (Cunz?),  83 — Ruetschj,  29. 

Heist,  54. 

Heitz,  Job.  Heinrich,  90. 

Hengart,  Elias — Vicar  of,  51,  69. 

Henkard,  Henkertt,  27,  55,  56. 

Hermetschweiler,  A.  Magdalena, 
Annelj,  Babelj,  Hans,  Heinrich, 
Margreth,  Regelj,  72. 

Hermetschwyer,  Anna,  Barbara,  Bar 
bara  (Erzinger),  Elsbeth,  Heinrich, 
Jacob,  59. 

Herrliberg,  IV,  26,  58,  66. 

Herter,  Anna  (M tiller),  70 — Regula 
(Briincker),  48. 

Herzog,  Anna  (Maag),  39 — Heinrich 
and  Jacob,  81 — Margaretha  (Muller), 

43- 
Hess,     Hesz,    Anna     (Knecht),     91  — 

Caspar,  36,  91 — Hans  Rudolff,  91 — 

Jacob,  36 — Joh.  Caspar,  31. 
Hetling,  Pastor,  70. 
Hettlingen,  27,  55,  69. 
Heussli,  50. 

Heuszer,  Hansz  Conradt,  48. 
Hildebrand,   Hiltibrand,   Johannes,   of 

Hans  Jacob,  39 — Johannes,  of  Jacob, 

39 — Ragel  (Fritschi),  76. 
Hiltzinger,  Susanna  (Widmer),  97. 
Himmel,  Anna  (Islicker),  33. 
Hinckels,  Henckels,  Pieter,  Peter,  101, 

Pis.  12-14. 
Hinderburg,  34. 
Hindermann,  Margrethe,  31. 
Hindermeister,  Anna,  61. 
Hinke,  Dr.  William  J.,  2. 
Hinkende  Bate,  of  Bern,  22. 
Hinnen,     Anna     Barbara,     78 — Anna 

(Surber),   84 — Caspar,   77,   78 — Els 
beth  (Widmer),  77 — Heinrich,  78 — 

Kilion,  44. 
Hinweil,  27,  59. 
Hirt,  Johannes  and   Magdalena   (Ull- 

man),  32. 
Hirtzel,  Hirzel,  26 — Johann  Jacob,  54 — 

Salomon,  71. 
;Hirtzwangen,  54. 

History  of  Orangeburg  Co.,  S.  C.,  VIII. 
:Hittnau,  28,  59. 
jHitz,  Adelheid,  Anna,  Elsbetha  (Frick), 

Heinrich  (2),  Verena,  54 — Veronica 

(Frik),  61. 
Hochfelden,  39, 


Hoch — Riiti,  62. 

Hoffstatter,  Caspar,  37. 

Hofmann,  Hoffman,  Adelheit,  99— 
Anna  Babelj,  99 — Els  [Elizabeth], 
80 — Hans  Urech,  99 — Hansz  Ulrich, 
46 — Heinrich,  99 — Rudj,  99— Sus- 
anelj,  99 — Verena,  99. 

Hofmeister,  Jos.  Caspar,  92. 

Hofstetten,  68. 

Hohn,  75. 

Holland,  20,  25,  50,  57,  60,  61,  63, 
96. 

Hollenweiger,  Barbara  (Mejer),  34. 

Holzhalb,  John  Heinrich,  74 — Leon- 
hard,  56,  57, 

Homberger,  Hans  Jacob,  90 — Regula 
(Meilj),  96. 

Hombrechtikon,  60. 

Hongg,  28,  30,  36. 

Honegger,  Anna  (Schneider),  Caspar 
(2),  Hans  Jacob  and  Marx,  59. 

Horenen,  39. 

Horgen,  26,  60,  61. 

Horger,  Barbara,  13,  15. 

Horner,  Anna  (Kern)  and  Daul,  39. 

Hotz,  Elsbeth  (Aeppli),  65 — Hans 
Caspar,  44. 

Hub,  36,  67. 

Huber,  VII— w.  &  8ch.  75— Anna,  85— 
Anna,  of  Marti,  37 — Anna  (Al- 
bracht),  81 — Anna  (Frolj),  86— 
Anna  Magdalena,  85 — Anna  (Mul 
ler),  75 — Anna  (Ruetsch),  67— 
Anna  (Schwab),  37 — Anna  (Wag- 
mann),  63 — Anna  (Wyss),  29 — 
Anna  (Zweidler),  87 — Anna  Regina 
( Wolfensperger) ,  90 — Barbara,  85 — 
Barbara  (Bleiiler),  85 — Caspar,  48, 
90 — Catharina,  75 — Catharj  (Glatlj), 
37 — Ehgaumer,  82 — E  1  i  s  a  b  e  t  h 
(Scherer),  67 — Ester  (Meyer),  79— 
Felix,  75,  90 — Hans,  82,  86 — Hans 
Jacob,  37,  39 — Hans  Conrad,  48 — 
Hans  Ulrich,  48,  86 — Heinrich,  40, 
67,  85,  90 — Jacob,  75,  90 — Kljovree 
(Meyer),  86— Lienhard,  86— Mar 
greth  (Weidmann),  86 — Margeth 
(Schu'z),  33 — Peter,  9,  13,  19,  20 — 
Saml,  48 — Ulrich,  48,  49 — Verena 
(Mejer),  39 — Verena  (Hurter),  29 — 
Vronegg,  82. 

Hubschmid,  Catri,  57. 

Hug,  Hugg,  Anna,  36 — Heinrich,  35— 
Susanna  (Mejer),  34. 


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111 


Hugen,  Anna,  35 — Barbara  (Meyer), 
34.  35— Christen,  34 — Rudolff,  35. 

Huggenberger,  Elsbeth,  80 — Magda- 
lena  (Duttweiler),  45 — Ulrich,  45. 

Hugi,  Susanna  (Schmid),  54. 

Humbrachtikon,  26. 

Hunen,  Elsbeth  (Mejer),  Jacob 
(Bieler),  Regula,  44. 

Hiiniken,  67. 

Hunn,  Barbel  (Schmid),  57. 

Hiintwangen,  69,  98. 

Hiirliman,  Hurrlimann,  Elsbeth  & 
Heinrich,  38 — Felix,  96 — Hans,  38 — 
Maria  (Keller),  38. 

Hursel,  Link  and  Salome  (Brunner),  35. 

Hurter,  Hans  Heinrich,  29. 

Husen,  54. 

Huser,  Huszer,  Anna,  81 — Anna- 
Barbara,  84 — Anna  (Bucher),  87 — 
Barbara  (Mayer),  83 — Barbara  Ortli, 
81 — Caspar,  84 — Christoph,  84 — 
Felix,  81,  83,  87,— Hans  81  (2)— 
Hans  Jacob,  52,  58,  81,  82 — Hein 
rich,  82  (2),  84,  87 — Johannes,  84 — 
Leonhardt,  81 — Madalena  (Azen- 
weiler),  52 — Ragula,  82,  84 — Ragula 
(Mayer),  84— Verena,  81,  82. 

Illnauro,  60. 

Inabnit,   Imabnit,  etc.,   Peter,   10,   13, 

16,  19,  21. 

Interlaken,  9,  10,  17. 
Isler  (?) — see  Jsler,  96. 
Islicker,  Anna  Hegin,  Anna  (Himmel), 

Hans  Jacob,  33. 
Jagli,  Heinrich,  95. 

Jahrbuch  der  Deutsch-Amerikanischen, 
etc.,  von  III.,  4. 

Jameson,  Dr.  J.  Franklin,  III,  I. 

Jauschlj,  Johannes,  46. 

Jeglj,  Babelj,  80— Els.  (Rosej),  Si- 
Hans  Urech,  80,  81 — Jacob,  81  — 
Urech,  80 — Vre  (Brunner),  80. 

Jlnau,  28. 

Joner,  Jacob,  10,  20. 

Jorlis,  Haus  (Sigerist),  74. 

Jsler,  Jszler,  Barbara  (Miiller),  100 — 
Christophel,  96 — Hans,  96 — Hansz 
Jacob,  98. 

Jucker,  Anna,  Babelj,  Hans,  Maria 
(Miiller),  80. 

Jud,  Angelica  (Steiner),  65. 

Juker,  Anna  and  Elj,  96. 


Kagi,  VII — Hansz  Jacob,  Jacob,  Maria 
(Egli),  Marx,  50. 

Kaller,  Heinrich,  38. 

Kampf,  Hans  and  Suszanna,  84. 

Kapfnach,  60. 

Kappel,  26. 

Karodj,  Hans  Jacob,  80. 

Karrer,  5. 

Kaiiffeler,  Lisabeth  (Markj),  79. 

Keiser,  Fronnyk  (Bechtold),  Jacob, 
Marthj,  Rodolff,  Verena,  46. 

Kelker,  Kolliker,  Heinrich,  IV,  VIII— 
Rudolph  F.,  IV. 

Keller,  45 — Abraham,  52 — Andreas, 
67 — Anna,  93 — Anna  (Keller)  En- 
derli,  35 — Anna  (Naff),  93 — Bar 
bara,  52 — Barbara  (Blaar),  92 — 
Barbara  (Heinrich),  88 — Bernhard, 
47, 52— Caspar,  34, '51, 96 — Elizabeth, 
47,  93 — Liszabeth  (Biichi),  47 — 
Elsbeth  (Frey),  51 — Elizabeth 
(Kiieffer),  35 — Lisabeth  (Ott),  97 — 
Felix,  51,  67 — Gotthard,  98 — Hans, 
51,  52  (2),  93 — Hans  Conrad,  92 — 
Hans  Heinrich,  93 — Hans  Jacob, 
51,  67 — Hans  Rudolff,  67 — Hein 
rich,  33,  51,  63,  96,  99— Jacob,  63, 
67  (2),  93 — Joachim,  47 — Johann, 
60 — Margaretha,  Margeth,  33,  60 — 
Margaret  (Koffel),  52 — Margeth. 
Scheur  (Mejer),  33 — Magdalena,  93 
— Margaretha  (Meyer),  52 — Maria 
(Hiirliman),  38 — Matheus,  93 — 
Michel,  98— Ragula,  98— Rudolff, 
93  (2) — Salomea,  51 — Samuel,  99 — 
Sarah  (Blauler)  63 — Steffen,  51 — Su 
sanna,  34,  47,  52,  93 — Susanna 
(Naff),  93 — Susanna  (Stephan),  67 — 
Vrena,  52 — Vrena  am  Berg,  51,  52. 

Kemleton,  60. 

Kempf,       Veronica        (Baumgartner), 

94- 

Kempton,  95. 
Kern,     Anna      (Brunner),     61 — Anna 

(Horner),  39 — Barbel  (Brunner),  68 

— Hansz  Jacob,  38. 
Kilchberg,  26,  31. 
Kirch-Uster,  90. 
Kissling,  Daniel,  21. 
Kitt,  Beat,  98. 
Klaue,  Elsbetha  (Siber),  88. 
Klayslin,  Anna,  95. 
Kleggau,  99. 
Klein-Andelfingen,  32,  33. 


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INDEX 


Kleiner,    Barbara    (Waaser),    70 — Ru- 

dolff,  29. 

Kleinpeter,  Hanss,  son  of,  61. 
Kloten,  28,  35,  61. 
Klupf,  80. 
Knecht,  Anna  (Hesz)  and  Margretha, 

91- 

Knonau,  26,  37,  54. 

Koblet,  Ludwig,  96. 

Koch,  Anna,  40,  85,  86 — Anna  (Mayer), 
84 — Barbara,  85 — Beat.  85 — Caspar, 
85  (2) — Cathrina,  40,  85 — Cleophee, 
85— Felix,  40  (2)— Hansz,  84,  85  (2), 
86 — Jacob,  40 — Johannes,  40,  86 — 
Joseph,  85 — Kly  Anna,  40 — Kljan- 
nelj,  86 — Kljannj  Meyer,  85 — Maria, 
85— Michel,  85— Regula,  85,  86— 
Verena,  85 — Verena  (Meyer),  85 — 
Verena  (Muller),  85. 

Kocherthal,  22. 

Kochli,  Kochlj,  Anna  Maria,  83 — 
Barbara,  83 — Cleophea,  83 — Elsz- 
beth  (Meyerhoffer),  83— Felix,  85— 
Hans  Jacob,  83 — Heinrich,  83,  85 — 
Johannes,  85 — Margreth  (Vogler), 
85 — Verena,  83. 

Koffel,  Margaret  (Keller),  52. 

Kollbrunnen,  99. 

Koller,  Hans,  101,  Pis.  12-14 — Susan 
nah,  PI.  13. 

Kolliker  (Kelker),  Anna,  59 — Antonia, 
59 — Hans  Caspar,  59 — Heinrich  IV, 
VIII,  59— Ragula,  (Bratscher),  59 
— Susanna,  59 — Verena  (Widmer),66. 

Korrodi,  Pastor,  65. 

Kramer,  29. 

Krebser,  Abraham,  Anna,  Anna  (Weg- 
mann),  Hans  Jacob  (Diibendorffer), 
Heinrich  (Diibendorffer),  Kilian  (Dii 
bendorffer),  Magdalena,  Verena,  all 
35;  Johannes,  son  of  Jacob,  and 
Rudolf,  of  Heinrich,  49. 

Kreuzach,  77. 

Kreysz,  Anna  (Bachmann),  Hans  Felix, 
Hans  Jacob,  Hans  Ulrich,  Jacob,  30. 

Kiibler,  Hansz,  98. 

Kiieffer,  Elsbeth,  Hans  (Diibendorf 
fer) ,  Hans  Georg,  Katharina,  Lisa- 
beth  (Keller),  Rudolff,  35. 

Kuenz,  Annelj  (2),  Barbara,  Cathri, 
Hans,  Heiri  (Magistrate),  Heiri, 
Heinrich  (Engelheinrich),  Johannes 
Margreth,  87;  Jacob,  and  Hans 
Heinrich,  88. 


Kuhn,  Anna,  44 — Anna  Magdalena 
(Mejer),  44 — Barbara  (Dentzler), 
63 — Barbara  (Naff),  93 — Caspar,  44 
—  Felix,  44 — Heinrich,  44 — Lisabeth 
(Naff),  92 — Hans,  63 —  Peter,  44 — 
Regula  (Zobelj),  44. 

Kuhns,  Prof.  Oscar,  VII,  VIII. 

Kundig,  Margretta  (Miller),  70. 

Kunz  (see  Cunz,  Kuhn),  VII — Anna 
(Dutweiler),  33 — Barbara,  33 — Cas 
par,  of  Conrad,  65 — Felix,  33 — 
Hans,  33. 

Kiissnacht,  26,  62. 

Kussnachterberg,  62. 

Kyburg,  28,  55,  67,  91. 

Lake  District,  26 — Lake  Zurich,  34. 

Land,  Elizabeth  and  Heinrich^82. 

Landert,  Ragula  (Rietiker),  76. 

Landicon,  37. 

Landolt,  Anna,  32. 

Lang,  Lange,  Anna,  81,  82,  83 — Anna 
Barbara,  82 — Anna  (Bucher),'  95 — 
Anna  (Meyer),  83 — Anna  (Vogel), 
82 — Barbara,  82,  83  (2) — Barbara 
(Moor),  84— Deker,  84— Elsbeth 
(Cunz),  83— Esther,  83— Felix,  82, 
83  (2)— Hans,  82,  83  (2)— Hans  Jr., 
81,  84 — Hans  Heinrich,  81,  82— 
Heinrich,  82 — Jacob,  81,  83 — Johan 
nes,  81,  83 — Margareth  (Maag),  81  — 
Margaretha,  83 — Maria  (Mayer), 
82— Ragula  (Muller),  82— Ragula, 
81 — Verena,  81 — Vronegg  (Auer),  83. 

Langnau,  26. 

Lanu,  Jacob,  14. 

Lauffen,  27,  37. 

Lauffer,  Dorothea  (Walder),  Hans 
Jacob,  Lisabeth  (Glatfelder),  52. 

Lausanne,  22. 

Lawson,  3. 

Lee,  Anna,  Felix,  Hans,  Hans  Peter, 
Vrena  (Meyer),  Vrena  (Martelerj), 
52. 

Lehmens,  Barbara,  Dorothea,  Elsbeth, 
Elsbeth  (Frey),  Hans  Graaf,  Hans 
Jacob,  Hans  Ulrich,  Heinrich,  74. 

Leiden  (Holland),  20. 

Leimaker,  50. 

Leimbacher,  Anna  (Meyer),  Barbel, 
Christophel,  Lisabeth,  Felix,  Hein 
rich  (2),  Jacob,  all  35:  David,  49; 
Hans  Jacob  and  Hans  Heinrich,  36. 

Lenzen,  50. 


INDEX 


113 


Lerch,  Dr.  E.,  12,  24. 
Letsch,  " sadler,"  45. 
Leiiw,  Barbara  (Binder),  64. 
Library  of  Congress,  102. 
Lieber,  Lisabeth  (Peter),  47. 
Lienhardt,  Hans  Ludwig,  of  Heinrich, 

93- 

Lier,  "Beat,"  Heinrich,  Verena  (Suter), 
54 — Rudolf  and  Thommen,  41. 

Limmat,  79. 

Lindau,  28,  63. 

Lips,  Anna,  86 — Barbara  (Riitschi), 
78 — Caspar,  86 — Felix,  86 — Hans 
Caspar,  86 — Heinrich,  86 — Melcher, 
90 — Regula  (Naff),  86 — Verena,  90. 

Loch,  48. 

London,  VII,  9,  32,  50,  55,  70,  75. 

Luffingen,  27,  49,  69. 

Luther,  Martin,  V,  4. 

Luzern,  6,  12,  15. 

Lyinburger,    Barberry    PI.    13 — Hans, 

101    (2),   Pis.   12   (2),   13   (2),    14  (2)  — 

Hanah,  Pis.  13 — Lisabeth,  PL  13  (2) 
—Peter,  PL  13. 
Lyschy,  Jacob,  79. 

Maag,  Anna  (Herzog),  39 — Andreas, 
39 — Chilion,  of  Chili,  68 — Hansz, 
38 — Hans  Jacob,  of  Alexander,  39 — 
Junghans,  33,  39 — Margareth  (Lang) 
81. 

Majer,  Felix  and  Magdalena,  34. 

Mandates,  or  decrees,  V. 

Manedorf,  26 — Mannedorf,  63. 

Mannheim,  3. 

Mantz,  Anna  (2),  Anna  (Bachmann), 
Barbara,  Conrad,  Hans  Jacob  (2), 
Hans  Spallinger,  Hans  Ulrich,  Mag 
dalena,  Magdalena  (Ritter),  Marg- 
reth,  Verena,  64. 

Mantzin,  A.  Magdalena  (Hermetsch- 
weiler),  72. 

Marcklin,  Hans  Jacob,  n. 

Marithi,  Verena,  of  Verena,  48. 

Markgrafenland,  38. 

Marqualder,  Maria,  of  Melchior,  68. 

Marriage  court,  53,  90. 

Martelen,  27. 

Marthalen,  64. 

Marti,  Martey,  Johannes,  101,  Pis. 
12-14. 

Marthj,  Hans,  46. 

Maryland,  102. 

Maschwanden,  26,  57. 


Matrimonial  court,  53,  90. 

Matthysen,  Jacob,  dau.  of,  30. 

Matthysz,  Johannes,  43. 

Mauslin,  Meeseley,  Abraham,  101, 
Pis.  12-14. 

May,  VII. 

Mayer,  Anna,  84 — (Anna  Koch),  84 — 
Barbara  (Huser),  83 — Felix  ("Hos- 
pel"),  84— Hans  Ulrich,  84— 
Jacob,  84 — Johannes,  84^  (2) — Maria 
(Lang),  82 — Ragula  (Huser),  84 — 
Verena,  84 — Veronica,  84 — Veronica 
(Schmid),  84. 

Meier,  Catarina  of  Hans,  49 — see 
"Mejer." 

Meierhofer,  Heinrich,  51. 

Meilan,  26. 

Meili,  Meilj,  Anna,  96 — Heinrich, 
96  (2) — Heiri,  of  Heiri,  57 — Jacob, 
96 — Regula  (Homberger)  96 — Ver 
ena,  96. 

Meister,  Jacob  and  Johannes,  36. 

Meisterhans,  Anna  Etsabeth,  Hans 
Conrad,  Hans  Jacob,  Jacob,  Verena 
(Bernhardt),  32. 

Mejer,  Meier,  Anna  39 — Anna  Mag 
dalen  (Kuhn),  44 — Barbara  (Hollen- 
weiger),  34 — Catarina  of  Hans,  49 — 
Elsbeth  (Hunen),  44 — Felix,  34 — 
Hans  Conrad,  39 — Hans  Heinrich 
(Mejerhofer),  39 — Heinrich,  98— 
Jacob,  34 — Jacob  of  Conrad,  39 — 
Magdalena  (Ntikomm),  99 — Mar- 
geth  Scheur  (Keller),  33 — Regula, 
34 — Salomon,  39  (2) — Susanna 
(Hug),  34 — Verena,  34 — Verena 
(Ruetsch),  67. 

Mejerhofer,   Catharina   (Mejer),  39. 

Mennonites,  2,  3. 

Merchant,  Samuel,  101,  Plates  12,  13, 
14. 

Meria,  58. 

Merian,  M.  Andreas,  43. 

Merishausen,  12. 

Merki,  Merkj,  Anna,  79 — Anna  (Al- 
bracht),  81 — Barbara  (Surber),  80 — 
Barbara,  79 — Caspar,  30 — Elsbeth 
(Wezstein),  92 — Hans,  79,  92 — 
Hans  Conrad,  92 — Hans  Heinrich, 
92 — Heinrich,  79,  92 — Jacob,  79 — 
Kilian,  92 — Margaretha,  79 — Re 
gula,  79 — Rudolff,  79 — Verena,  79 — 
Verena  (Bucher),  79. 

Merveilleux,  5. 


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INDEX 


Mesler,  Meysler,  Anna,  PI.  13 — 
Lisabeth,  PI.  13— Ulrich,  101,  Pis. 
12  to  14. 

Methodist  Book  Co.,  VII. 

Metmenstetten,  Mettmenstetten,  26, 
67. 

Meyer,,  VII — see  also  "Mejer,"  An 
gelica  (Niissli)  31 — Anna,  72  (2),  95 
(2) — Anna  Barbara,  41,  87,  88 — 
Anna  (Brunner),  36 — Anna  (Eber- 
hardt),  95 — Anna  (Lang),  83 — Anna 
(Hassenfraz),  30 — Anna  (Leim- 
bacher),  35 — Anna  Margrett,  86 — 
Anna  (Vogler),  41 — Anna  (Wirz), 
63 — Babelj  (Zuppinger),  ?,  99 — 
Barbara,  41,  72,  73,  86,  95 — Barbara 
(Baumgartner),  94 — Barbara  (Hu- 
gen),  34 — Barbara  Regula  (Muller), 
79 — Caspar,  72  (2) — Cathrina,  41, 
88 — Conrad,  41,  79 — Conradt,  63 — 
Elsbeth  of  Jacob,  46 — Elsbeth,  41, 
51,  72,  88— Elsbeth  (Boop),  72 — 
Elisabetha  (Schmid),  77 — Felix,  41 
(2) — Hans,  52,  72,  79,  80  (2),  86 — 
Hans  Caspar,  95 — Hans  Conrad, 
40 — Hans  Heinrich,  34,  41,  77 — 
Hans  Jacob,  37,  95  (2) — Hans 
Jacob  Scheur,  95 — Hansz  Rudolff, 
95 — Hans  Ulrich,  49 — Heinrich,  41, 
51,  74  (2),  77  (2),  88— Jacob,  33,  41, 
46,  51.  73,  86,  88  (2),  95— Johann 
L  u  d  w  i  g,  59 — Junghans,  33— 
Kljoree  (Huber),  86 — Kljannj 
(Koch?),  85 — Magdalena,  30 — Mag- 
dalena  Weidman,  40 — Margaretha 
(Keller),  52 — Margaretha  (Buecher), 
95 — Margaretha  Scheur,  95 — Mar- 
gretha  (Theiler),  92 — Maria,  30 — 
Melchior,  40-87 — Regula,  41,  86 — 
Rudolff,  30 — Susanna,  51  (2) — 
Susanna  (Hoffman),  99 — Tobias,  77 
— Ursula,  46 — Verena,  41  (2),  86  (2) 
— Vrena  (Grendelmeyer),  41 — Verena 
(Koch),  85 — Vrena  (Martelerj),  52. 

Meyerhofer,  Meyerhoffer,  Abraham, 
83 — Anna,  83,  84 — Barbara,  95 — 
Catharina,  94 — Elsbetha  (Albracht), 
94 — Elszbeth  (Kochli),  83 — Hans, 
84  (2),  94  (2) — Hans  Heinrich,  94 — 
Hans  Rudolff,  83  (2)— Hans  Ulrich, 
84 — Heinrich,  94 — Johannes,  83 — 
Margaretha,  84 — Margaretha  (Ber- 
singer),  83 — Rudolf,  94  (2) — Susan 
na,  94. 


Meylen,    66 — Meylen,    Margareth 

(Burkhard),  79. 
Meylj,    Meilj,    Meili,    Cartrj    (Meylj), 

99 — Jacob,  98 — Kli  Jogg,  98. 
Michel,  Franz  Ludwig,  2,  3. 
Minutes  of  the  Provincial  Council  (Pa.), 

IOI,   102. 

Mississippi,  5. 

Mokli,  Magdalena  (Binder),  64. 

Montgomery,  Dr.  Thomas  L.,  102. 

Moor,  Barbara  (Lang),  84— Felix,  84— 
Hans  Jacob,  84 — Heinrich,  84  (2) — 
Margreth  (Albrecht),  87. 

Morff,  Barbara,  36 — Barbara  (Weber), 
42 — Daniel,  42 — Hans  Caspar,  36 — 
Jacob,  36 — Jacob,  36 — Regula  (Bach- 
man),  36. 

Moser,  Anna,  32. 

Mount  Albis,  29,  30. 

Mulinen,  W.  F.  von,  4. 

Muller,  Adam,  56  (2) — Anna,  70,  82, 
87 — Anna  (Herter),  70 — Anna  (Hu 
ber),  75 — Anna  Maria,  84 — Anna 
(Spillman),  43 — Anna  (Weidman, 
84 — Barbara,  42,  56,  67 — Barbara 
(Bauer),  80 — Barbara  (Frauenfel- 
der),  55 — Barbara  (Fritschi),  69 — 
Barbara  (Jsler),  100 — Barbara 
(Schleher),  82 — Barbara  Regula 
(Meyer),  79 — Barbel  (Baumer),  30 — 
Caspar  (Commissioner),  78 — Chris- 
toph,  30 — Dorothea,  31 — Elsbeth, 
29 — Ernst,  3 — Franz,  70  (2) — Goriss 
(Ruff),  79 — Hans,  19,  79,  82,  84  (2) — 
Hanss  Conrad,  68 — Hans  Jacob, 
87 — Hans  Heinrich,  42 — Hans  Ul 
rich,  31,  56,  100 — Hans  Urech,  100 — 
Heinrich,  41,  42,  43,  69,  79,  84,  100 — 
Jacob,  29,  41,  42,  69  (2) — Kungold, 
70 — Margaretha  (Herzog),  43 — Mar 
gareth  (Zimmerli),  78 — Maria,  loo — 
Maria  (Jucker),  80 — Martha,  69 — 
Ragula,  79,  80 — Ragula  (Bosshart), 
68— Ragula  (Lang),  82— Rodolff, 
56 — Susanna  (Geiigisz),  42 — Ulrich, 
42  (3) — Ursula,  42,  43,  56 — Verena 
(Bolsterlj),  31,  41 — Verena  (Koch), 
84,  86 — Verena  (Schnider),  42 — 
Verena  (Siiesstrunk),  56. 

Miillhausen,  79. 

Mullibach,  50. 

Miilliberg,  48,  49. 

Munch-Altorff,  28. 

Mur,  28,  45,  63,  65. 


INDEX 


115 


Murer,  Anna  Margeth,  Elsbeth,  Hans 
Heinrich  of  Jacob,  Jacob,  Margeth, 
40. 

Muschgg,  Caspar,  60. 

Nabholz,  Prof.  Hans,  VIII. 

Naff,  VII — Anna  92  (2),  93 — Anna 
Barb.  (Dappeler),  92 — Anna  Bar 
bara,  94 — Anna  (Keller),  93 — Anna 
(Urner),  58 — Balthaser,  93 — Bar 
bara,  93 — Barbara  (Kuhn),  93 — 
Beat.  93 — Conrad,  29,  93 — Elsbeth, 
•92,  93  (2) — Elsbeth  (Haller),  93 — 
Lisabeth  (Kuhn),  92 — Elsbeth 
(Weber),  93 — Lisabeth  (WinschJ, 
93 — Esther,  94 — Hans,  94 — Hans 
Conrad,  93 — Hans  Heinrich,  93  (2) — 
Hans  Jacob,  92  (2),  93  (2) — Hans 
Ulrich,  99 — Heinrich,  93 — Jacob,  92, 
93  (2) — Konrad,  92 — Regula,  93 — 
Regula  (Lips),  86 — Susanna  (Keller), 
93 — Ulrich,  93 — Verena,  93. 

Nageli,  Hans,  19. 

Naross,  Harass  (?),  Jacob  Wilhelm, 
Plates  12,  13,  14 — Mary,  PI.  13. 

Neerach,  87. 

Neftenbach,  Nefftenbach,  27,  51,  53, 
67,  69. 

Neschweil,  96. 

Neubrunn,  89. 

Neuchatel,  I,  5,  6,  9,  15,  16,  22. 

Neiichum,  Anna  (Siggin),  73 — Catha- 
rina,  73,  74 — Franz,  73  (4) — Hein 
rich,  73,  74 — John,  73 — Johannes, 
74 — Salomon,  74 — Verena,  73  (3), 
74 — Verena  (Graaf),  73. 

Neue  Nachricht  alter  und  neuer  Merk- 
wurdigkeiten  etc.,  23. 

Neu-Gefundenes  Eden,  23 — New  Eden, 

23- 

Neuenburg,  5. 
Neuse  river,  N.  C.,  3. 
New  Bern,  VIII,  i,  4. 
New  York,  102. 
Niderhaslen,  28. 
Niderhorj,  40. 
Nider-Urdorff,  90. 
Niderhasslen,  68. 
Niderwyl,  32. 

Niehvergelt,  Barbara  (Sytz),  62. 
Nimwegen,  3. 
North  Carolina,  VIII,  i,  21,  102,  and 

throughout  the  "Lists." 
Nova  Scotia,  10. 


Niikomm,  Anna,  98 — Heinrich,  99 — 
Magdalena  (Mejer),  99 — Michel,  98. 

Nusch,  Eel,  78. 

Niischeler,  Felix,  96. 

Nussli,  Nuszli,  Angelica  (Meyer),  30 — 
Anna,  31 — Barbara,  31 — Elisabeth, 
30 — Hansz,  30 — Hans  Ulrich,  99 — 
Heinrich,  31 — Margreth  (Boszhardt), 
99 — Verena,  31. 

Ober-Affholteren,  30. 

Ober-Diirnten,  45. 

Oberembrach,  35,  48,  68. 

Oberen  Strass,  54. 

Oberglatt,  28,  68. 

Oberhasli,  8,  9,  13,  18,  23. 

Oberhittnau,  59. 

Oberhoff,  50. 

Oberlangenhardt,  99. 

Ober-Lunneren,  71. 

Obermettmenstetten,  67. 

Ober-Ottiken,  53. 

Oberriedt,  46. 

Ober-Riffenschweil,  58. 

Oberschweil,  58. 

Obersteinmur,  84. 

Oberwageburg,  48. 

Oberwenigen,  80. 

Oberwill,  35,  36,  42. 

Oberwinterthur,  27,  48,  60,  80. 

Obi,  100. 

Ochs,  Joh.  Rudolff,  2,  22. 

Ochsner,  Ochssner,  Anna  (Zuricher), 
92 — Elsbeth  (Haussli),  63 — Elisa 
beth  (Stutz),  91 — Hans,  92 — Hans 
Jacoblj,  92. 

Oeden-Hoff,  67. 

Oerj,  Hans  Jacob,  43. 

Oertlj,  Anna,  Felix,  Hans  Heinrich, 
Heinrich,  Kljverena,  Regula,  40. 

Oetweil,  28. 

Ohrlingen,  32. 

Opfiken,  61. 

Orangeburg-Lexington,  VIII. 

Orell,  Johann  Jacob,  54. 

Ortli,  Barbara  (Huser),  81. 

Ossingen,  27. 

Osslingen,  71. 

Ott,  Barbara,  97 — Elsbeth,  97,  99 — 
Elsbetha  (Riigg),  88— Lisabeth 
(Keller),  97 — Hans,  99 — Hans  Hein 
rich,  98,  100 — Hans  Jacob,  97,  98 — 
Hans  Rudi,  100 — Hans  Rudolff,  98 — 
Hans  Ulrich,  98 — Heirj,  100 — Heirj 


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INDEX 


(Purer),  100 — Jacob,  100 — Magda- 
lena,  97 — Margaretha,  97 — Maria, 
100 — Rudi,  99,  100. 

Ottelfingen,  28,  72. 

Ottenbach,  26,  71. 

Ottenhub,  98. 

Otter,  Johannes,  101. 

Ottikon,  60. 

Ottlis,  Caspar,  29. 

Otweil,  71. 

Palatinate,  I,  21,  65,  98. 

Pennsylvania,  III,  IV,  V,  VIII,  i,  2,  3, 
21,  22,  26,  29,  43,  53,  54,  96,  101; 
Plates  12  to  14;  and  throughout  the 
"Lists" — Archives,  2d  Series,  102 — 
Lebanon,  IV — see  Philadelphia — 
State  Library,  101,  102. 

Peter,  Anna,  100 — Barbara,  47  (2) — 
Anna  Magdalena,  47 — Caspar,  100 
(2) — Elsbeth,  47 — Lisabeth  (Lieber), 
47 — Hans  Jacob,  100 — Hans  Ulrich, 
47 — Hugo,  47 — Joachim,  47  (2)— 
Margeth,  100 — Maria  (Zuppinger), 
100 — Rudolf,  47,  100. 

Peyer,  Balthassar,  61 — Elsbeth  (Voge- 
ler),  89. 

Pfaffikon,  28,  72. 

Pfeiffer — see  Frauenfelder,  56. 

Pfister,  Babelj  (Gaszmann),  40 — Bar 
bara,  40 — Dorothe,  40 — Elsbetha 
(Egolff),  71— Felix,  33— Hans,  33— 
Hans  Caspar,  33 — Heinrich,  33,  40 — 
Jacob,  33,  40 — Junghans,  40  (2)— 
Klihans,  33 — Magdalena  (Danzler), 
44 — Rudolff,  33 — Vrena  (Bleuler), 
33 — Vrena  (Schiiz),  33. 

Pfungen,  27,  68,  69. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Ill,  22,  43,  46,  68, 
73,  79,  101;  Plates  12,  14. 

Piedmont,  32. 

Pingly,  Pinkley,  Hans  Michel,  101, 
Plates  12  to  14. 

Poplizen,  72. 

Protestant  churches,  2,  12. 

Prussia,  70. 

Purry,  Jean  Pierre,  VIII,  i,  4,  6,  7. 

Purrysburg,  VIII,  i,  6,  9. 

Queen  Anne,  2. 
Quinche,  9. 

"Rabies  Carolinae,"  9. 
Raafz,  Rafz,  29,  72,  73,  99. 


Rabstal,  90. 

Ramp,  Hans  Rudj  and  Jacob,  99. 

Ramsberg,  89. 

Rasi,  Anna  (Stierlin),  37. 

Rass,  Barbara  (Angst),  32. 

Rat,  Berner,  4. 

Rath,  83. 

Rathgeb,  Hans  Jacob,  of  Jacob,  93. 

Ratsherren,  of  Bern,  5,  8,  9,  10,  21. 

Ratsmanuale,  of  Bern,  2,  3,  n,  19. 

Read,  Charles,  PI.  14. 

Rebsamen,  Felix,  Regula  (Graff),  88. 

Redemptioners,  VII,  8,  18,  77. 

Redinger,  Barbara  (Brunner),  36. 

Reformed  church,  10,  79. 

Regensberg,  Regensperg,  28,  75. 

Reiat,  12. 

Reichenbach,  17. 

Reiff,  Elsbeth  (Zollinger),  66. 

Reinszfelden,  53. 

Reutlinger,   Hans  Jacob,   Kaspar,   35. 

Responsa  Prudentum,  12. 

Reiitj,  72. 

Reutschman,  Conrad,  Johannes,  73. 

Revolution,  French,  6 — Revolutionary 

war,  4,  12. 
Rhine,   13. 
Richtenschsweil,  Richtersschweil,  VII, 

26,  75- 
Rieden,  44. 

Riemensperger,  Hans,  9. 
Rieslimann,  32. 
Rieth,  87. 
Rietiker,     Barbara,     Barbel,     Caspar, 

Catharina,     Hans     Conradt,     Hans 

Jacob,     Heinrich,     Jacob,     Jacobli, 

Margareth,   Regula  (Landert),  Ver- 

ena  (Hiltibrand),  76. 
Riefferschweil,  26,  58. 
Rights,   citizens    (inheritance),    V,    89, 

90. 

Rikenbach,  27. 
Ringger,    Anna    of    Jacob,    67 — Hans 

Jacob,  78 — Hans  Ulrich,  78 — Jacob, 

36,   78— Margreth    (Boszhardt),   78. 
Ringker,  Jacob  of  Capt.   Werner,  54. 
Ritschard,  Jacob,  20. 
Ritter,      George,      2,      3 — Magdalena 

(Mantz),  64. 

Rorbas,  Rorbass,  27,  69,  76,  77,  98. 
Roseg,  Els.  (Jegli),  81. 
Rosell,  Hans  Jacob,  67. 
Rossau,  67. 
Roth,  Hans,  16 — Martin,  50.     ' 


INDEX 


117 


Rothenflue,  Rottenfluh,  11,  49. 

Rotterdam,  19,  20,  40,  95. 

Rubi,  Lieut.,  21. 

Ruckstul,  Barbara,  Barbara  (Biichj), 
Cleophea,  Hans  Conrad,  Hans  Hein- 
rich,  Hans  Ulrich,  Joachim,  Mar- 
greth  (Egg),  Melchior,  Salomon 
(2),  all  48. 

Rudlingen,  12. 

Rudolff,  Heinrich,  Jacob,  29. 

Riiegg,  Anna  (Z\vik),  59 — Barb. 
(Buchj),  81 — Caspar,  81 — Catharina, 
89 — Hans  Heinrich,  89 — Heinrich, 
81—  Jacob,  81  (3)— Konr.  81— Ul 
rich,  81. 

Ruestin,  Cathrj  (Grob),  29. 

Ruetsch,  Anna  (Huber),  Barbara, 
Heinrich,  Verena,  Verena  (Mejer), 

67- 

Ruff — see  Miiller,  Goriss,  79. 

Rugg,  Elsbetha  (Ott)  and  Hansz,  88. 

Rtimeli,  Elsbeth(  Spillman),  43. 

Riimikon,  38,  48. 

Riimlang,  28,  44,  77. 

Rummen,  Heinrich  of  Hans  Heinrich, 
80. 

Rupp,  I.  Daniel,  III,  IV,  102. 

Ruschlikon,  26,  31. 

Russikon,  28,  78. 

Rutschi,  Barbara   (Lips),  Conrad,  78. 

Rutschmann,  Hansz,  98. 

Rutschwill,  42. 

Riithi,  28. 

Rykon,  60. 

Rynthal,  89. 

Ryser,  Hans  Jacob,  50. 

Sackelschreiber  Protokolle,  9. 

Sagenmann,  Margreht  (Spullinger),  65. 

Salez,  26. 

Salley,  A.  S.,  VIII. 

Santee  Forks,  S.  C.,  10. 

Savoy,  71. 

Sax,  26. 

Saxer,  Jacob  Miiller,  69. 

Schaffhausen,  12,  24,  56. 

Schafflistorf,  79. 

Schalchen.,  98 

Scharer,  Hans  Jacob,  29. 

Schaub,  Adam,  32 — Anna,  32 — Anna 
Barbara  (Bertschinger),  32 — Anna 
(Bosshart),  45 — Anna  (Frey),  32 — 
Hans  Conrad,  32  (3) — Hans  Jacob, 
32  (2) — Hans  Ulrich,  32 — Heinrich, 
32  (2) — Jacob,  Johannes,  Susanna, 


Ursula,   32 — Verena    (Frauenfelder), 

55- 

Schellenberg,  Felix,  88— Heinrich,  88— 

Martin,  93 — Pastor,  68 — Ursula,  93 
— Verena  (Benz),  93. 

Schenkelberger,  Ester  (Miiller),  79. 

Scherer,  Scherrer,  Adelheit,  67 — Anna 
(Guth),  53 — Barbara,  67 — Elisabeth 
(Huber),  67 — Gottfried,  67 — Hans, 
67 — Jacob,  67 — Susann  (Bertschin 
ger),  67. 

Scherz,  Peter,  14. 

Scheuchzer,  Pastor,  89. 

Schlatt,  27,  56. 

Schlatter,  Michael,  10. 

Schleipffer,  Anna  (Grof),  Cathri,  Hein 
rich,  Jacobi,  Johannes,  58. 

Schlesien,  Schlessingen,  70. 

Schleittheim,  56. 

Schleher,  Barbara  (Miiller),  Hans 
Ulrich,  Heinrich,  Johannes,  82. 

Schlieren,  VI,  26,  43,  78. 

Schlumpf,  Barbara  (Windsch),  61. 

Schlyniken,  80. 

Schmid,  Abraham,  82 — Anna  Albracht, 
82 — Anna  (Ziircher),  65 — Barbara, 
83 — Barbel  (Hunn),  57 — Caspar,  53 
— Elisabeth  (Duttweiler),  83 — Eliza- 
betha  (Meyer)  77 — Elsbeth  (Weyd- 
mann),  31 — Felix,  95 — Fridli,  78 — 
Hans,  52 — Hans  Conradt,  82 — Hans 
Jacob,  54 — Hans  Rudolff,  54 — Hans 
Ulrich,  53 — Hartmann,  83 — Hein 
rich,  82  (2),  95— Heiri,  57  (2)— 
Jacob,  40,  83,  95— Joggli,  82— 
Johann  Conrad,  54 — Johannes,  53 — 
Margreth,  82 — Margretha  (Hagen- 
buch),  42 — Maria,  57 — Pastor,  53 — 
Regula,  54 — Rudolff,  78 — Susanna 
(Hiigi),  54 — Thomas,  57 — Ulrich, 
51 — Verena  (Weidmann),  82 — Ver 
onica  (Mayer),  84. 

Schnebeli,  Ana,  30 — Hans,  29 — Leon- 
hard,  29 — Riietschj  Heiri,  29,  30. 

Schneider,  Anna,  46 — Anna  (Honeg- 
ger),  59 — Anna  (Wintsch),  44 — 
Hans,  44 — Hans  Conrad,  44 — Hans 
Jacob,  46 — Hans  Rudolff,  44 — Hein 
rich,  44 — Jacob,  46 — Jacob  Rathgeb, 
44— Regula,  44 — Regula  (Hart 
mann),  46 — Regula  (Utzinger),  46 — 
Rodolf,  46. 

Schneit,  47. 

Schnetzer,  Verena,  46. 


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INDEX 


Schnofflistorf,  28. 

Schonenberg,  26,  92. 

Schonenberger,  Hans  Ulrich,  50. 

Schoop,  Job,  33. 

Schoruiis,  etc.,  35. 

Schottiken,  46,  47. 

Schiipfen,  82. 

Schupisser,  48. 

Schurter,  Caspar,  51 — Hans  Jacob  of 
Krauszli  Hans,  76. 

Schiitz,  Elsbeth  (Volkart),  68. 

Schiiz,  Anna,  Barbara,  Elsbeth,  Hans, 
Hans  Heinrich,  Hans  Jacob,  Jacob, 
Margaretha  (Schmid),  Margeth 
(Huber),  Vrena  (Pfister),  33 — Vrena 
(Bernhardt),  34. 

Schwab,  Anna  (Huber),  Barbara,  Cas 
par  (Toggweiler),  Hans  Heinrich, 
Margreth,  37. 

Schwallj,  Barbara  (Weisz),  43. 

Schwarz,  Hans  Ulrich,  of  Jacob,  42. 

Schwarzenbach,  Barbel  (Hausli),  Felix, 
Heinrich,  Ulrich,  44. 

Schweizer,  Schweyzer,  Ann  (Graaf), 
72 — Johann  Caspar,  34 — Susanna 
Baggenstoss),  74. 

Schwenk,  Anna,  Anna-Marja,  Catha- 
rina  (Belz),  Elisabetha,  Esther, 
Jacob,  Johannes,  75. 

Schwertzenbach,  28,  80. 

Schwizler,    Margaretha     (Buchmann) 

47- 

Schwytzer,  Johannes,  90. 
Schyblin,    Hansz,   Lisabeth,    Heinrich, 

95- 

Seebach,  43. 

Seen,  27,  51,  80. 

Seglingen,  46. 

Seiffert,  Sara  (Steinmann),  56. 

Sennhauser,   Dorothea   (Wy-man),  58. 

Sennvvald,  26. 

Senscheiir,  91. 

Seiizach,  27,  69. 

Shenk,  Hiram  H.,  102. 

Ship- lists,  III,  IV,  101,  Plates  12-14. 

Siber,  Anna,  Elsbetha  (Klaiie),  Hans 
Caspar,  88. 

Sigerist,  Anna,  74 — Anna  (VVildberger), 
74 — Barbara,  74 — Barbara  (Angst), 
72 — Elisabeth  (Baur),  74 — Franz, 
74 — Hans,  74,  99  (2) — Hans  Jacob, 
74 — Hans  Ulrich  (Melchers),  74 — 
Heinrich,  VII,  99 — Johannes,  72 — 
Susanna,  74- 


Sigg,  Hans  Jacob,  Jacob,  Margaretha, 

Regula  (Eigenhier),  33. 
Silesia,  Prussian,  70. 
Simler,  Pastor,  40. 
Smith,  Henry  A.  M.,  VIII,  6. 
Solothurn,  12,  24. 
Sommer,  Barbara   (Baltensberger),  38 

— Ursula  of  Jacob,  45. 
South  Carolina,  VIII,  i,  6,  10,  101,  102, 

Plates  12,  14 — South  Carolina  Hist. 

Mag.,  VIII,  6. 
Spallinger,  Heinrich,  Ursula   (Binder), 

64. 

Spanish  service,  90. 
Speker,  Anna  Barbara,  46. 
Spillman,    Caspar,    Elsbeth,    Hanseli, 

Heinrich  (2),  Verena,  43. 
Sporri,  Caspar,  Jacob  (2),  96. 
Sprenger,  Hans  Ulrich,  46. 
Spring,  Mardling,  Plate  13. 
Sprungen,  64. 
Spriingli,  Heinrich,  88. 
Spullinger,     Anna,     Barbara,     Georg 

Hans  Jacob,  Margreth  (Sagenmann), 

65- 

Stadel,  28,  81,  82,  83,  84,  95. 
Stadeli,  Barbara  (Gross),  38. 
Stafa,  71 — Stafan,  26. 
Staffen,  63 — Estate,  60 — Barbara,  38 — 

Verena,  38. 
Stagen,  95. 

Stahli,  Uli,  57 — see  Stelly. 
Stallikon,  26. 
Stammheim,  27. 

Stapfer,  Anna,  of  Hans  Jacob,  45. 
Statistics,  III,  24. 
Steffi sburg,  8. 
Stein,  27,  45. 
Steiner,  Angelica   (Jud),  65 — Barbara, 

65 — Caspar,  39 — Hans  Conrad,  bro. 

of  Seepe,  57 — Heinrich,  65 — Johanes, 

39- 
Steinman,  Anna,  Beatrix,  David,  Hans 

Ulrich,  Hansz  Jacob,  Heinrich,  Jacob, 

Magdalena,       Salomon,       Susanna, 

98. 
Steinmann,     Anna     Martha,     Deyes, 

Johann     Conrad,     Lorenz     Simeon, 

Sara  (Seiffert),  56. 
Steinmaur,  28 — Steinmur,  84. 
Stelly,  Starley,  Jacob,  100,  Pis.  12 — 14, 
Sterchi,  Landsvenner    (Bannertrager), 

16. 
Sternberg,  27,  88. 


INDEX 


119 


Stierlin,  Anna  (Rasi),  Gregorius,  Hans 
Jacob,  Ursula,  37. 

Stoker,  Peter,  21. 

Strassburg,  57. 

Strauli,  Jacob,  of  Caspar,  60. 

Streiff,  Hans  Jacob,  Melcher,  87. 

Striker  (Stryger),  8 — Hans  Georg,  21. 

Striib,  — ,  79. 

Studer,  Johannes,  36. 

Studies  in  Pennsylvania  German  Family 
Names,  VII. 

Stiidli,  61. 

Stuki,  Barbara  (Hugenbergerin),  Dan 
iel,  Jacob  (2),  Johannes,  Peter, 
Ulrich,  42. 

Stutz,  Barbara,  Caspar,  Elisabeth 
(Ochsner),  Heinrich,  Ulrich,  91. 

Stuzin,  Anna  (Walder),  53. 

Siiessrtunk,  Verena  (Miiller),  56. 

Suicer,  Conrad,  49. 

Sulgen,  73. 

Sultzbach,  90. 

Sulz,  45. 

Siinnicken,  86,  87. 

Surber,  Anna  (Hinnen),  84 — Anna 
(Weidmann),  34 — Barbara  (Merkj), 
90 — Caspar,  80 — Hans,  80 — Hansz, 
84 — Hans  Caspar,  85 — Hans  Hein 
rich,  85 — Heinrich,  80,  84,  95 — 
Jacob,  80,  95 — Susanna,  80 — Verena, 
84,  85. 

Susstrunk,  Barbara,  Hans  Ulrich, 
Heinrich,  Ursula  (Uly),  33. 

Siisztrunk,  Anna  (Buhlmann),  Hans 
Conrad  (2),  Jacob,  Magdalena,  Oth- 
mar,  Ulrich,  97. 

Suter,  Sutter,  Hans,  Hansz  Jacob, 
Heinrich,  Rudi,  29 — Heiri,  67 — 
Verena  (Lier),  54. 

Swalher,  Swaller,  Christian,  101,  Plates 
12,  13,  14. 

Snyder,  Hans  Jacob,  of  Marx, 
71- 

Sytz,  Anna,  of  Heinrich,  Anna  (Wal 
der),  Barbara  (Niehvergelt),  Hans 
Jacoli,  Heinrich,  61  (2)  and  62, 
Regula,  of  Heinrich,  62. 

Tagelschwang,  35. 

Tanner,  w.  and  6  ch.,  75. 

Tax,  emigration,  VII,  n,  66,  71,  88. 

Tetnau  Estate,  88. 

Thai,  69. 

Theiler,    Elsbeth,    Hans   Jacob,    Hans 


Rudolff,        Johannes,        Magdalena 

(Belm),    Margretha    (Meyer),   92. 
Theilingen,  96. 
Thirty   Thousand   Names,   etc.,    Rupp, 

III,  IV. 

Thomann,  Marx,  99. 
Thun,  15,  19,  21. 
Tobel,  Jacob  von,  71. 
Tobler,  Anna  (Baumann),  92 — Elsbeth 

(Erzinger),  62 — Pastor,  66. 
Todd,  Vincent  H.,  VIII,  4. 
Toggenburg,  9,  88. 
Toggweiler,     Anna     (Huber),     Caspar 

(Schwat),  37. 
Toss,  Tosz,  27,  69,  88  (2). 
Toszegg,  98. 

Trachsler,  Anna  Maria  (Vogler),  46. 
Trent  River,  N.  C.,  3. 
Trindler,   Anna    (Frauenfelder),    61. 
Triib,    Anna,    66 — Hans    Jacob,    86 — 

Heinrich,  66 — Jacob,  86. 
Trullikon,  88. 
Trutikon,  88. 
Turbenthal,  27,  89. 

Uessikon,  66. 

Uetikon,  26,  71. 

Uhwisen,  89. 

Ullman,  Hans,  Hans  Jacob,  Magdalena 
(Hirt),  32. 

Ullrich,  Ulrich,  Caspar,  31 — Heinrich, 
41 — Johannes,  95 — Johann  Hein 
rich,  63 — John  Jacob,  90. 

Uly,  Ursula  (Susstrunk),  33. 

Under  Langenhardt,  99,  100. 

Under — Lunneren,  71. 

Under-Rifferschweil,  58. 

Underwagenburg,  49. 

Unter-Affholteren,  30. 

Untermellmenstetten,  60. 

Untermetterstetten,  48. 

Unterseen,  14. 

Unterwalden,  15. 

Undorff,  26,  90. 

Urner,  Anna,  Anna  Naff,  Heinrich, 
Johannes,  Verena,  58. 

Uster,  28,  66,  71,  80,  90 — Church,  90. 

Usteri,   Dean,  67 — Hanss  Caspar,  68. 

Utenberg,  62. 

Utikon,  26,  67. 

Utzinger,  John  Jacob,  44. 

Vaud,  6. 

Veldheim,  46. 

Vetter,  Elsbeth,  Jacob,  35. 


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INDEX 


Virginia,  2,  102 — Magazine  of  History,?. 

Vogel,  Anna  (Lang),  82 — Margaretha, 

of  Heinrich,  53 — Margreth  (Kochlj), 

85- 

Vogeler,  Vogler,  Anna  Magdalena,  46 — 
Anna  Maria  (Trachsler),  46 — Anna 
(Meyer),  41 — Caspar,  46 — Elsbeth 
(Peyer),  89— Hans  Ulrich,  46  (2), 
89 — Hansz  Heinrich,  46 — Hansz 
Jacob,  46 — Johan.  Felix,  76 — Pastor 
and  Chamberlain,  75. 

Volkart,  Anna,  Elsbeth  (Schiitz),  Felix, 
Hanss,  Hans  Heinrich,  Heinrich  (2), 
Margreth,  68. 

Volken,  51,  70. 

Volkert,  Frena  (Friesz),  Joseph,  39. 

Volketschweiler,  91. 

Volkhart,  Hans  Heinrich,  Heinrich, 
Jacob,  86. 

Volketschweil,  28. 

Vollenweider,  Hans  Heinrich,  78 — 
Ulrich,  41. 

Von  Tobel,  Elizabeth  (Frey),  Jacob,  71. 

Vrener,  Caspar,  Klihans,  Regula 
(Bram),  33. 

Waaser,  Barbara  (Kleiner),  Christen, 
Jacob,  70. 

Waber,  Anna  Maria  (Weidmann),  77 — 
Caspar,  78 — Johannes,  58,  78 — 
Margareth  (Gering),  78 — Ulrich,  58. 

Wadenschweil,  Wadeschweilen,  26,  92. 

Wagmann,  Anna,  63 — Anna  (Huber), 
63 — Barbara,  63 — Dorothea  (Haff- 
ner),  60 — Hans  Caspar,  63 — Hans 
Jacob,  63 — Hans  Ulrich,  63 — Hein 
rich,  63 — Jacob,  60 — Margaretha, 
63 — Regula,  61. 

Wald,  28,  50. 

Walder,  Anna,  62 — Anna  (Stuzin), 
53 — Anna  (Sytz),  61 — Anna  (Weiss), 
62 — Dorothea!,  62 — Dorothea  (Lauf- 
fer),  52 — Felix,  52 — Hans  Jacob,  62 
— Hans  Jacobli,  62 — Heinrich,  52, 
61 — Jacob,  10,  53 — Leonhard,  62 — 
Rudolf,  53 — Verena  (Epprecht),  29 
— Vreneli,  62. 

Wallisell,  61 — Wallisellen,  29,  34,  35, 
92. 

Wangen,  28,  36,  96. 

Wanger,  Winger,  Ann,  PI.  13  (2) — 
Lazarus,  101,  Pis.  12-14. 

Waser,  Jacob,  70 — Ulrich,  of  Joseph, 
42 — Vicar,  98. 


Wasterkingen,  98. 

Watt,  43. 

Wattenwyl,  21. 

Weber,  Wewer,  Ann,  PI.  13  (2) — 
Barbara  (Morff),  42 — Christian,  101 ; 
Pis.  12,  13  (2),  14— Elsbeth  (Naff), 
93 — Hans  PI.  13 — Heinrich,  58 — 
Jacob,  58. 

Weckerli,  Jacob,  99. 

Weckerling,  Abraham,  Catrj  (Meylj), 
Verena,  Wilpert,  99. 

Weggmann,  Anna  (Krebser),  35. 

Weidmann,  Anna,  34  (3),  87 — Anna 
Maria  (Waber),  77 — Anna  (Miiller), 
84 — Anna  (S  u  r  b  e  r),  34 — Anna 
(Zweidler),  87 — Felix,  34 — Hans,  34 
— Hans  Jacob,  34,  87 — Heinrich,  34, 
87  (2) — Joggli,  82 — Johannes,  34 — 
Judith,  77 — Magdalena  (Meyer),  40 
— Margreth  (Huber),  86 — Regula, 
87 — Rudolff,  34,  77,  82  (2) — Verena 
(Schmid),  82, — see  Weydmann. 

Weil,  56. 

Weiningen,  28. 

Weiss,  Weisz,  Anna  (Walder),  62 — 
Barbara  (Schwallj),  43 — Regula,  43 
—Rudy,  43— S.,  50. 

Weisslingen,  28,  96. 

Weltj,  Anna,  Clein-Anna,  Barbara, 
Hans,  Heinrich,  Rudolff,  72. 

Weni,  Heinrich,  56. 

Wenningen,  28,  95. 

Werder,  Salomo,  of  Bernhardt,  63. 

Werdmiiller,  Captain,  96. 

Werndtlin,  Esther,  22. 

West  Indies,  49,  63,  70,  75. 

Wetstein,  Verena  (Aepplj),  49. 

Wetzikon,  27,  45,  95. 

Wetzstein,    Anna    (Bretscher),    Jacob, 

43- 

Weyach,  29,  99. 

Weydmann, — see  Weidmann-Elsbetha 
(Ernst),  Heinrich,  Jacob  and  sister, 
43 — Christoph,  Esbeth  (Schmid), 
Hans  Caspar,  Heinrich,  Ulrich,  31. 

Weyer,  Anna  Frauenfelder,  55. 

Weyss,  Felix,  96. 

Wezstein,  Anna  (Denzler),  Anna  (Fra 
uenfelder),  60 — Elsbeth  (Merki),  92 
— Hanss,  60. 

Widmer,  Andreas,  97 — Anna,  66,  97 — 
Barbara  (Beriither),  60 — Elssbeth, 
63  (2),  66,  97 — Elsbeth  (Banninger), 
63 — Elsbeth  (Hinnen),  77 — Felix, 


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60 — Hans  Felix,  35,  63 — Hans  Jacob, 
58,  66 — Heinrich,  66 — Jacob,  63,  97 
— Margaretha  63,  97 — Margaretha 
(Diebrunner),  97 — Susanna,  97 — 
Susanna  (Hiltzinger),  97,  Verena 
(Kolliker),  66 — Verena  (Diibendorf- 
fer),  35- 

Wieland,  Anna  (Engeler),  Conrad, 
Hans  Conrad,  Hans  Rud.,  Lisab., 
Urss.,  88. 

Wild,  Philip,  19. 

Wildberg,  27,  98. 

Wildberger,  Anna  (Sigerist),  74. 

Willem,  Barbry,  PI.  13  (2) — Cristan, 
PI.  13— Ulrich,  Uldrick,  101; 
("Yelia,"  "Yelin"),  Pis.  12,  13,  14. 

William  and  Mary  College,  2. 

Willikon,  71. 

Windlach,  81,  82,  83. 

Windisch,  Windsch,  Winsch,  Caspar 
(Schlumpf),  61— Lisabeth  (Naff), 
93 — Regula  (Buchmann),  67. 

Winkel,  39. 

Winkler,  Hans  Conradt,  Hans  Jagelj, 
100. 

Winterberg,  63. 

Winterthur,  27,  32,  48,  69. 

Wintsch,  Felix  and  Katharina,  37 — 
see  Winsch. 

Wipf,  Anna  (Dietrich),  Barbara  of 
Georg,  Elsbeth,  Hans  Jacob,  Hein 
rich,  Johannes,  64. 

Wipfen,  Bernet  (wife),  49. 

Wirt,  Wirtz,  Wirz,  VII,  Anna  (Elliker), 
62 — Anna  (Meyer),  63 — Hans  Hein 
rich,  44 — Hans  Jacob,  91 — J.  Con 
rad,  47 — Jacob,  62. 

Wirth,  Chamberlain  90 — Heinrich,  95. 

Wisendangen,  27,  56,  96. 

Wismann,  Anna,  Felix,  Verena  (Foster) 
61. 

Wisz,  75. 

Witenberger,  Elsbeth,  98. 

Wolfer,  Verena,  42. 

Wolff,  Wolf,  Johan  Jacob,  75 — Pastor, 

77,  95- 

Wolffensberger,  Anna,  Anna  (Dand- 
liker),  Hansz,  Jacob  (2),  Regula,  42. 

Wolffensperger,  Anna,  90 — Anna,  of 
Jacob,  54 — Anna  Regina  (Huber), 
90 — Cleophea,  90 — Elisebeth,  53, 
90 — Hans,  90  (2) — Hans  Jacob,  53 — 
Margaretha,  53 — Maria,  53 — Susan 
na  (Danni),  53. 


Wolgemuth,  Cleophela  (Bachofen)  and 
Hans  (2),  91. 

Wollishoffen,  26,  31,  60. 

Wollnau,  59. 

Wolsen,  71. 

Wiiest,  Hans  Conrad,  54 — Hans  Jacob, 
54 — Jacob,  of  Hans  Heinrich,  93. 

Wuhrmann,   Margretha   (Blatter),   42. 

Wulflingen,  27,  69. 

Wunderlich,  5. 

Wunderli,  Wunderlij,  Bernhardt,  62 
(2) — Conrad  and  Maria,  66 — Els 
beth,  66 — Elisabeth  (Brunner),  66 — 
Heinrich,  66 — Magdalena,  66 — Pas 
tor,  37. 

Wiirgler,  Hanss  and  Verena  (Morff), 
61. 

Wurman,  Anna,  Barbara,  Elsbeth, 
Elsbeth  (Boszhart),  Hans  Heinrich, 
Hans  Heiri,  Johannes,  Magdalena 
(Goszweiler),  Rudolf,  Ursula,  97. 

Wiirtemberglands,  78. 

Wiist,  Jacob,  Leonhardt,  81. 

Wyach,  94. 

Wyl,  Wyla,  VI,  27,  29,  97,  98  (2). 

Wy-man,  Barbara,  Dorothea  (Senn- 
hauser),  Elsbeth,  Hans  Heinrich, 
Heinrich,  Jacob,  Rudi,  Verena,  58. 

Wyss,  Wysz,  Anna,  Babelj,  Betelj,  Els 
(2),  Hofman,  Hans,  Vre,  80 — 
Conrad,  29 — Felix,  29 — Hans,  10 — 
Hans  Ulrich,  30. 

Yverdun,  10. 

Zanger,  Heinrich,  39. 

Zaugg,  Peter,  16. 

Zehender,  Hans  Ulrich  and  Martj,  89. 

Zell,  27,  99. 

Zeller,  minister,  45. 

Ziegler,  Christophel,  62 — Conrad,  IV, 
59 — Salomon,  69. 

Zimickon,  91. 

Zimmerli,  Margareth  (Miiller),  78. 

Zobeli,  Zobelj,  Hans  (2),  Jacob,  80 — 
Regula,  44. 

Zollbrtick,  14. 

Zollicker,  Elsbeth  (Fasi),  Hans,  Hein 
rich,  Kilian,  48. 

Zollinger,  A.  Barbara,  38 — Andreas, 
53 — Anna,  66 — Anneli,  53 — Babeli- 
53 — Casperli,  53 — Conrad,  38 — Els, 
beth  (Reiff),  66— Lisabeth,  38— 
Lisabeth  (Frey),  53 — Felix,  66  (2) — 


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INDEX 


Hans  Caspar,  Hans  Ereth,  Hans 
Heinrich,  Hans  Jacob,  38 — Hans 
Jacob,  66 — Jacob,  53 — Regula,  38 — 
Rudolf,  38. 

Zumikon,  26. 

Zuppinger,  Abraham,  50 — B  a  b  e  1  j 
(Purer),  100 — Babelj  (Meyer),  99 — 
Hans  Caspar,  99 — Hans  Conradt, 
99 — Hans  Jacob,  50 — Hans  Uerich, 
99 — Heinrich,  99 — Margetlj,  99 — 
Maria  (Peter),  100. 

Ziircher,    Anna     (Schmid),     Elsbetha, 


Hans    Jacob,    Hans    Ulrich,    Leon- 

hardt,  65. 
Zurfluh,  Hans,  10. 
Zurich,  IV,  V,  VIII,  6,  7,  9,  10,  22,  23, 

24,  26,  46,  54,  61,  78,  100. 
Zuricher,  Anna  (Ochsner),  92. 
Zursach,  60. 
Zweidlen,  53 — Zweidler,  Anna  (Huber), 

87 — Anna      (Weidinan),     87 — Hans 

Heiri,     86 — Heinrich,     86 — Mathys, 

86. 
Zwik,  Anna  (Rtiegg),  59 — Heinrich,  59. 


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